Bilingualism and Syntactic Change in Konkani.

Nadkarni, Mangesh V.

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Bilingualism and Syntactic Change in Konkani

Nadkarni, Mangesh V.

Language, 51, 3, 672-683, Sep 75

The syntax of the relative clause in the Saraswat Brahmin dialect of Konkani, an Indo-Aryan language, has been Dravidianized because of the impact of the Dravidian Kannada language, operating through bilingual speakers. The Konkani-Kannada bilingual situation is described and an explanatory account of the syntactic change is given. (Author/CLK)

Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dravidian Languages, Kannada, Language Research, Language Usage, Language Variation, Sociolinguistics, Syntax

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