The Lublin lectures
By: Karol Wojtyla ; Hugh J. F. Mc Donald, translator.
Series: Catholic thought from Lublin ;; v. 6
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Ethics; Act (Philosophy); Phenomenology; Ethics -- History
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.