22.2206, Books: Anthro Ling/Historical Ling/Lang Documentation/Socioling: Modi

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Date: 20-May-2011
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Parsi Gujarati: Modi

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Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 13:05:26
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Parsi Gujarati: Modi

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Title: Parsi Gujarati 
Subtitle: Vanishing Dialect : Vanishing Culture 
Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 483  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom.eu

Author: Bharati Modi

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862880652 Pages: 170 Price: Europe EURO 64.80

Abstract:

The book is an effort in searching the cause for the apocalyptic state of Parsi 
Gujarati, which is (soon it will be 'was') one of the most valuable dialects of 
Gujarati. The Parsi Gujarati voices will vanish in 21st century and Gujarati will 
be impaired and permanently deprived of this attractive dialect. Before even 
the Gujarati Society registers this loss, the dialect will be gone. The loss of 
such dialect means an 'irretrievable loss of diverse and interesting intellectual 
wealth, the priceless product of mental industry' (Hale : 1992).

While supporting the commonly accepted reasons for language attrition (such 
as the shift towards the more prestigious language and shrinking of the 
community) it is attempted to pinpoint at the specific mode of the dialect 
formation as one of the important reasons for the coming death. Parsi 
Gujarati resulted out of the language contact situation but very differently 
from creoles. Leaving Pahalavi and acquiring Gujarati must have happened 
gradually. We can roughly periodize the changes in the dialect history : the 
emergence of the dialect, her gradual development, her arrested 
interlanguage stage', and the approaching structural collapse.With the death 
of Parsi Gujarati, Gujarati will lose one of her most beautiful dialects. Every 
conscious Gujarati will grieve the disappearance of this dialect which is like a 
valuable 'pedigree' of Gujarati. 

Bharati Modi taught linguistics at the department of linguistics of the M.S. 
University of Baroda for 30 years. Mainly worked and published in the areas 
of phonetics, phonology and field linguistics. Influenced by her great teacher 
Ken Hale from whom she learnt her first lessons in field linguistics, she 
continued her interest in that areas all along. This book is the result of that 
interest. 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Gujarati (guj)

Written In: English  (eng)

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