Linguistic Theory, Language Contact, and Modern Hindustani: The Three Sides of a Linguistic Story (American University Studies) New Edition by Rajendra Singh

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Linguistic Theory, Language Contact, and Modern Hindustani: The Three Sides of a Linguistic Story (American University Studies) New Edition
Author:	Rajendra Singh
ISBN:	9780820426877
Binding:	Hardcover
Year:	1995
Pages:	153
Size:	15 x 23 cm
Weight:	405 grams
Price:	INR1090.00

About the Book

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.

About the Author

Rajendra Singh

Rajendra Singh, Ph.D. (Brown) is Professor of Linguistics at the Universite de Montreal.

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