Research in the supporting sciences

TL;DR: The code-mixing of English and Hindi in Filmi English yields a hybrid grammar that deviates from both parent languages.

Abstract: This paper focuses on a code-mixed variety of English and Hindi, termed 'Filmi English'. In addition to extending the empirical scope of Indian English, the study aims, first, to examine the formal and functional aspects of Filmi English, and second, to examine the adequacy of the transformationalgenerative and government-binding models of bilingual code-mixing proposed by Woolford and Di Sciullo et al. This paper calls for a re-examination of the conclusion arrived at by previous investigators that code-mixing yields no hybrid rules; therefore, no new grammar is born. It is argued that in at least one case that of the Filmi English in South Asia it is necessary to countenance the possibility that a third system specific to the mixed variety may arise. To achieve these goals a quantitative analysis of a corpus of more than 2000 intrasentential codemixed sentences drawn from a film magazine, Stardust, is performed.