Linguistic Theory, Language Contact, and Modern Hindustani: The Three Sides of a Linguistic StoryThis 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. |
Contents
The Limits of Formalism | 63 |
Towards an Adjudication | 109 |
References | 133 |
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