Publications

Publication details [#39682]

Bhatia, Tej K. 1985. Religious-colonial models of language and early Hindi grammars. Lingua 65 (1-2) : 113–134.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | grammar1 | religion | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Hindi

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

A reconsideration of the early Hindi grammars discloses that they follow a unique language model which can best be typified as the religious-colonial model and that they make up a rich storage of sociolinguistic information.