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Maansi Sharma
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi, India
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Research focus To explore contact-induced developments in Contact
Hindi (CH) which are typologically deviant fromStandard Hindi (SH).
One feature each from morphology, syntax andsemantics would be discussed.
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Methodology The study is based on the data collected during field
work in Itanagar, the capital of Arunachal Pradesh(AP).
Data was collected by recording of random speechsince the translation method did not prove helpful.
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Why not translation method? The translation method did not work because speakers
hyper-corrected CH since they are aware that CH isgrammatically deviant from SH.
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What is link language? Link language is the language of wider
communication, interaction and convenience. CH issuch link language in North Eastern State of India, AP.
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Linguistic profile of
AP
AP has 26, mutually
unintelligible indigenouslanguages.
There are other nonindigenous languages in formof eastern indo aryanlanguages such as Bangla,assamese, nepali etc.
Mix linguistic profile of AP
demands a link language.
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Mix linguistic profileAP has people from several states working as teachers,
government officers, traders, vendors, hawkers,laborers, taxi drivers etc.
Interaction with these is essential.
Hindi is a natural choice of communication because itis national language thus a common language.
Hence, it links people in AP.
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Who speaks CH? CH is used among three set of speakers:
1. Among non-indegenous people in AP.
2. Among non-indegenous people from outside andindegenous people of AP.
3. Among indegenous people of AP.
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Formation of CH: Intersection point Indo aryan (IA) language speakers provide primary
input to Tibeto-burman (TB) language speakers inform of consolidated regional Hindis.
TB speakers further innovate it and depending uponseveral factors, a continuum of CH is formed.
Thus CH lies at the intersection point of all languages
present as demonstrated in fig 1.
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Fig:1 Formation of CH
LoAP
EIAH
E &
OLCH
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Data discussion: morphology SH has inf lectional paradigm. TB has agglutinating
paradigm. CH marks agglutinating paradigm in pluralmarkers as shown;
1. lrka boy lrka.luk boys
2. utashoe uta.luk shoes
3. hva wind hva.luk* winds*
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Conclusion CH has agglutinating paradigm in plural marking on
nouns. lukis the marker. It has three phonologicalvariations luk, -lok, -log
The plural marker is SH lexical noun people. But thefunction of classifying nouns through classifier comesfrom TB languages.
The rule of numeral classifier lukis +count, whichinclude both +/-animate.
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Data discussion: SyntaxSH has modifier-modified
and noun-verbagreement.
4. lki.a amboy.pl mango
khati h
eat.imprf.sg.pl aux.prs.pl
(Girls eat mangoes.)
CH does not have either.5. lrki.luk mgo
boy.pl mango
khata e.eat.imprf.m.sg aux.prs.sg.
(Girls eat mangoes.)
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Conclusion CH lack agreement.
the default form of verb is 3.M.SG.
The motivation of lack of agreement is reducing thenumber of linguistic operation and forms.
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Data discussion: Semantics Being a contact language, elements in CH undergo
extension of semantic field. Thus, SH has two separate lexemes for verb bsit and
reh stay. But CH has a single lexeme bet sit for both
functions.
In fact, semantic field of this verb is extended to
several more functions in CH. This can bedemonstrated as follows:6. hm kursi me beta.
1.pl chair loc sit.perf.m.sg.
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Conclusion Thus, sentences 6-8 suggest that verb sit of SH has
been reanalyzed in CH to function as a verb to reside,live along with its lexical meaning of verb to sit.
This semantic extension is a regular phenomenon incontact situations because lexicon is limited.
It can be predicted that such semantic extension can
lead to eventual loss of actual meaning of the lexeme.It can lead to become a grammatical category.
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Relevance of study This study can help in predicting trends and directions
in any developing contact Hindi.
Thus, it will be a benchmark for further comparativestudies.
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