Code Mixing and Switching: Syntactic Constraints von Harish Kumar Khanna

Code mixing and switching is natural in bilingual and multilingual settings in general and bilingual Hindi English speech community in particular. This book belies the fact that code-mixing and code-switching is not arbitrary, in fact it is natural and patterned. It also postulates certain constraints on code mixing and cod-switching. Also, there is a difference between the code mixing by the people who are not competent in the language they are mixing and the people who are competent in the language. This is the fact that in a bilingual and multilingual setting, children acquire mixed language competence and that becomes their inbuilt part of the mother tongue(s) they use. One cannot deny reading this book without pleasure and profit. It is a compendium of empirically verified examples taken from bilingual Hindi-English speech community.

The author is currently an assistant professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, KSA. He got his MA, M.Phil in Linguistic (Delhi Univ.), and Ph.D in Linguistics (Patna Univ.). His research interests include -Theoretical Linguistics, ELT, Modern English Grammar, and Syntactic Typology.