{"product_id":"linguistic-theory-language-contact-and-rajendra-singh-9780820426877","title":"Linguistic Theory, Language Contact, and Modern Hindustani: The Three Sides of a Linguistic Story","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rajendra Singh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820426873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820426877\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Rajendra Singh","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48241121034495,"sku":"9780820426877","price":43.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_15b8490f-ed5e-4d2f-9686-25d4d553a0f7.jpg?v=1772652837","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/linguistic-theory-language-contact-and-rajendra-singh-9780820426877","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}