Linguistic theory, language contact, and modern Hindustani : the three sides of a linguistic story
- Title
- Linguistic theory, language contact, and modern Hindustani : the three sides of a linguistic story / Rajendra Singh.
- Published by
- New York : P. Lang, ©1995.
- Author
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- Description
- 153 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This book raises some important questions about formal linguistics and functionalist sociolinguistics when they encompass the same subject matter, linguistic borrowing and code-switching/mixing. These questions arise in the context of formalist and functionalist accounts of language contact and are tested here against some interesting Hindustani-English contact facts from India.
- The test reveals what these paradigms contribute to our understanding of language contact (and language in general) and precisely where they seem to go wrong.
- Series statement
- American university studies. Series XIII, Linguistics, 0740-4557 ; vol. 31
- Uniform title
- American university studies. Series XIII, Linguistics ; vol. 31.
- Subject
- Hindustani language > Phonology
- Code switching (Linguistics)
- Languages in contact > India
- 18.65 middle and modern Indian language and/or literature
- 17.23 multilingual sociolinguistics
- Language and languages
- Languages in contact
- Sprachtheorie
- Sprachkontakt
- Taalcontact
- Hindi
- Taalwetenschap
- Theorieën
- India > Languages > History
- India
- Indien > Nord
- Hindustani
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Contents
- 1. Side One: The Limits of Functionalism -- 2. Side Two: The Limits of Formalism -- 3. Side Three: Towards an Adjudication.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-150) and index.