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Abstract
The present study aims at establishing grammatical constraints on the borrowing of nouns (Ns) and verbs (Vs) in Urdu and English by adopting Noam Chomsky’s Methodological Naturalism within the fiel...
Highlights
By employing nouns (Ns) and verbs (Vs) borrowed by English and Urdu as data, the present study attempts to explore the grammatical constraints on the borrowing of Ns and Vs to establish the fact that the languages which have dropped their little v tend to inflect borrowed syntactic categories and those which have not dropped their little v do not inflect the borrowings of certain grammatical categories (Gumperz, 1982; Malik, 2017; Quarcoo, 2012; Wani, 2007)
If we talk about the little v of Urdu language such as ker, kerna, hona, liya etc. the construction of these Vs is very complicated in Urdu syntax and in this respect, a little work but significant in nature was done by Malik (2017)
The phenomenon of linguistic borrowing is considered a systematic phenomenon; it is not a random process at all, because it is argued that the insertion of each language is a systematic process, especially the means in which the semantic and phonological content is organized which is commonly known as a morphological arrangement (Sinha, 2009)
Summary
By employing nouns (Ns) and verbs (Vs) borrowed by English and Urdu as data, the present study attempts to explore the grammatical constraints on the borrowing of Ns and Vs to establish the fact that the languages which have dropped their little v tend to inflect borrowed syntactic categories and those which have not dropped their little v do not inflect the borrowings of certain grammatical categories (Gumperz, 1982; Malik, 2017; Quarcoo, 2012; Wani, 2007). The interaction between the two languages results in the phenomena of language contact and interaction. Language contact is regarded as a situation in which speakers of two or more languages interact and influence each other (Bentahila & Davies, 1983). It emerges as an area of investigation for researchers in the domain of linguistics and sociolinguistics but it attracts the interest of scholars of other domains such as phonology, morphology, syntax, and psychology. The results of language contact are of primary importance due to which it is hard to ignore
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