Linguistic theory, language contact, and modern Hindustani: the three sides of a linguistic story

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...

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1. Verfasser: Singh, Rajendra 1943-2012 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:German
Veröffentlicht: New York u.a. Lang 1995
Schriftenreihe:[American university studies / 13] 31
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:153 S.
ISBN:0820426873

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