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Publication details [#17832]

Singh, Rajendra. 1995. Linguistic theory, language contact, and Modern Hindustani: The three sides of a linguistic story. (American University Studies. Series 13: Linguistics 31). Peter Lang. xiv + 153 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
language contact | pragmatics | sociolinguistics | syntax1 | transformational generative grammar | universal grammar
Language as a subject
English | Hindi | Hindustani | Urdu
ISBN
0-8204-2687-3

Annotation

Besides a broader theoretical agenda, subscribing to the thesis of the autonomy of language, especially regarding its formal aspects, the three central chapters of this work are concerned with explanations of language contact phenomena pertaining to Hindustani and some other languages and presented as follows: the limits of functionalism; the limits of formalism; and towards an adjudication.

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