Linguistic theory, language contact, and modern Hindustani : the three sides of a linguistic story
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Linguistic theory, language contact, and modern Hindustani : the three sides of a linguistic story
（American university studies, Series XIII,
P. Lang, c1995
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Bibliography: p. [133]-150
Includes index
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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.
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