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Papers by Rakesh Bhatt

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In the earlier study “Code-Switching and the Optimal Grammar of Bilingual Language Use” in 2011, ... more In the earlier study “Code-Switching and the Optimal Grammar of Bilingual Language Use” in 2011, we present a unified account of language use in multilingual communities using the key insight of OPTIMIZATION to capture variations between multilingual communities. This paper explores the extensions and implications of our optimality-theoretic model of multilingual grammars. We provide evidence indicating that the vast array of empirical facts of bilingual language use (code-switching) are constrained by the operation of five universal socio-cognitive constraints of multilingual grammars, and that community grammars differ from each other in terms of how they prioritize these five constraints. We provide evidence to show that the model we propose (i) accounts for bi-dialectal community grammars, as well as grammars of indigenous and transplanted multilingual communities; (ii) replicates reverse patterns of socio-grammatical differences observed earlier between indigenous and transplan...

Code-Switching and Optimal Grammars

Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of …, 2008

1 Introduction This paper presents an analysis of the sociolinguistic functions of code-switching... more 1 Introduction This paper presents an analysis of the sociolinguistic functions of code-switching in terms of the interaction and optimal satisfaction of five socio-cognitive principles we propose that generalize over 130 functions that have been assigned to code-switching in the 110 ...

Coactivation: The portmanteau constructions in bilingual grammar

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2016

Goldrick, Putnam and Schwarz (Goldrick, Putnam…

Verb movement and the syntax of

LANGUAGE, Jan 1, 2001

Research on verb-second (V2) phenomena has largely focused on European languages, in particular t... more Research on verb-second (V2) phenomena has largely focused on European languages, in particular the Germanic languages but also the older Romance and the Celtic languages. Bhatt's analysis of Kashmiri, an Indo-Aryan V2 language, uncovers a wealth of data and ...

U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Jan 1, 1995

SSLA, I9, 331-378. Printed in the United States of America. OPTIMAL L2 SYLLABLES

Studies in second language acquisition, Jan 1, 1997

Lingua, Jan 1, 1999

An estimated 5000 languages are still spoken in the world today, but only half of them are expect... more An estimated 5000 languages are still spoken in the world today, but only half of them are expected to survive the year 2100. And yet, very little organized effort is being made to record the grammatical properties of languages that are destined to doom, as the number of their last surviving speakers dwindles into extinction. Even in those cases where the languages are alive, well and spoken routinely by a million-plus people, there are generally no good descriptive grammars of them written, or available for consumption of linguistic theorizing. Despite the tremendous need for descriptive grammars, the linguistics profession, ironically, has been busy preparing students of linguistics to merely develop and discuss novel theoretical nuances, many of which have a half-life of six months or less.

SURESH CANAGARAJAH, Resisting linguistic imperialism in English teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. viii+ 216. Pb. $24.95

Language in Society, Jan 1, 2002

The two volumes reviewed here thumb their noses at the 1866 ban by the Lin- guistic Society of Pa... more The two volumes reviewed here thumb their noses at the 1866 ban by the Lin- guistic Society of Paris on publications concerning language origins – a ban im- posed by those august guardians of public faith in linguistic science because of the disreputable, speculative, nonempirical ...

On experiencers and subjects of perfect predicates

Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, Jan 1, 1994

World Englishes, Globalization and the Politics of Conformity

Contending With Globalization in World Englishes, Jan 1, 2010

... The group is composed of rapper Alvin 'Nivla'August... more ... The group is composed of rapper Alvin 'Nivla'Augustine, Punjabi folk singer Parag 'P. Oberoi'Oberoi, Sharad 'DJ Sharad'Bhavani and sound engineer Raj 'RVM Sounds' Makhija. In (11) below, I present a short excerpt of the beginning of the rap lyrics (see http://www. youtube. ...

Erosion of case and agreement in Hindi heritage speakers

Linguistic Approaches to …, Jan 1, 2012

... Page 2. 142 Silvina Montrul, Rakesh Bhatt and Archna Bhatia ... Page 4. 144 Silvina Montrul, ... more ... Page 2. 142 Silvina Montrul, Rakesh Bhatt and Archna Bhatia ... Page 4. 144 Silvina Montrul, RakeshBhatt and Archna Bhatia to complex structures. Many structural, semantic and pragmatic aspects of the language do not reach full mastery until adolescence (Berman, 2004). ...

On the absence of CP in adult L2 syntax

Second Language Research Forum, Oct, Jan 1, 1997

Romance syntax, semantics and L2 acquisition: selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February …

... Adjective Position and Interpretation in L2 French 27 Bruce Anderson French Complex Inversion... more ... Adjective Position and Interpretation in L2 French 27 Bruce Anderson French Complex Inversion in the Light of a Minimalist Program 43 Cedric Boeckx Optionality, Presupposition, and WH-in situ in French 57 Cedric Boeckx, Penka Stateva & Arthur Stepanov Word Order Shift ...

Code-switching and optimal grammars

Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of …, Jan 1, 2008

1 Introduction This paper presents an analysis of the sociolinguistic functions of code-switching... more 1 Introduction This paper presents an analysis of the sociolinguistic functions of code-switching in terms of the interaction and optimal satisfaction of five socio-cognitive principles we propose that generalize over 130 functions that have been assigned to code-switching in the 110 ...

Language identity, conflict, and convergence in South Asia

Studies in the Linguistic Social Sciences, Jan 1, 1992

Bilingualism: Language and …, Jan 1, 2011

In this article, we provide a framework of bilingual grammar that offers a theoretical understand... more In this article, we provide a framework of bilingual grammar that offers a theoretical understanding of the socio-cognitive bases of code-switching in terms of five general principles that, individually or through interaction with each other, explain how and why specific instances of code-switching arise. We provide cross-linguistic empirical evidence to claim that these general sociolinguistic principles, stated as socio-cognitive constraints on code-switching, characterize multi-linguistic competence in so far as they are able to show how "local" functions of code-switching arise as specific instantiations of these "global" principles, or (products of) their interactions.

Nominative Objects in Kashmiri

Linguistic Society of American meeting. Los Angeles, …, Jan 1, 1993

SLA Paradigms

World Englishes, and the Sacred Imagined Community. …, Jan 1, 1997

On the native/non-native distinction

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS STUDIES AND …, Jan 1, 2007

... system (" na-Page 66. 56 Rakesh M. Bhatt tive" English) is able to ... more ... system (" na-Page 66. 56 Rakesh M. Bhatt tive" English) is able to establish a global standard; such a standard is sim-ply internal to itself but is successfully portrayed as universal. The standard ... world (cf. Ramanathan 1999). Semi-periphery ...

Syllable Weight, Universal Grammar, and the Metrical Structure of Kashmiri

Languages

In the earlier study “Code-Switching and the Optimal Grammar of Bilingual Language Use” in 2011, ... more In the earlier study “Code-Switching and the Optimal Grammar of Bilingual Language Use” in 2011, we present a unified account of language use in multilingual communities using the key insight of OPTIMIZATION to capture variations between multilingual communities. This paper explores the extensions and implications of our optimality-theoretic model of multilingual grammars. We provide evidence indicating that the vast array of empirical facts of bilingual language use (code-switching) are constrained by the operation of five universal socio-cognitive constraints of multilingual grammars, and that community grammars differ from each other in terms of how they prioritize these five constraints. We provide evidence to show that the model we propose (i) accounts for bi-dialectal community grammars, as well as grammars of indigenous and transplanted multilingual communities; (ii) replicates reverse patterns of socio-grammatical differences observed earlier between indigenous and transplan...

Code-Switching and Optimal Grammars

Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of …, 2008

1 Introduction This paper presents an analysis of the sociolinguistic functions of code-switching... more 1 Introduction This paper presents an analysis of the sociolinguistic functions of code-switching in terms of the interaction and optimal satisfaction of five socio-cognitive principles we propose that generalize over 130 functions that have been assigned to code-switching in the 110 ...

Coactivation: The portmanteau constructions in bilingual grammar

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2016

Goldrick, Putnam and Schwarz (Goldrick, Putnam…

Verb movement and the syntax of

LANGUAGE, Jan 1, 2001

Research on verb-second (V2) phenomena has largely focused on European languages, in particular t... more Research on verb-second (V2) phenomena has largely focused on European languages, in particular the Germanic languages but also the older Romance and the Celtic languages. Bhatt's analysis of Kashmiri, an Indo-Aryan V2 language, uncovers a wealth of data and ...

U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Jan 1, 1995

SSLA, I9, 331-378. Printed in the United States of America. OPTIMAL L2 SYLLABLES

Studies in second language acquisition, Jan 1, 1997

Lingua, Jan 1, 1999

An estimated 5000 languages are still spoken in the world today, but only half of them are expect... more An estimated 5000 languages are still spoken in the world today, but only half of them are expected to survive the year 2100. And yet, very little organized effort is being made to record the grammatical properties of languages that are destined to doom, as the number of their last surviving speakers dwindles into extinction. Even in those cases where the languages are alive, well and spoken routinely by a million-plus people, there are generally no good descriptive grammars of them written, or available for consumption of linguistic theorizing. Despite the tremendous need for descriptive grammars, the linguistics profession, ironically, has been busy preparing students of linguistics to merely develop and discuss novel theoretical nuances, many of which have a half-life of six months or less.

SURESH CANAGARAJAH, Resisting linguistic imperialism in English teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. viii+ 216. Pb. $24.95

Language in Society, Jan 1, 2002

The two volumes reviewed here thumb their noses at the 1866 ban by the Lin- guistic Society of Pa... more The two volumes reviewed here thumb their noses at the 1866 ban by the Lin- guistic Society of Paris on publications concerning language origins – a ban im- posed by those august guardians of public faith in linguistic science because of the disreputable, speculative, nonempirical ...

On experiencers and subjects of perfect predicates

Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, Jan 1, 1994

World Englishes, Globalization and the Politics of Conformity

Contending With Globalization in World Englishes, Jan 1, 2010

... The group is composed of rapper Alvin 'Nivla'August... more ... The group is composed of rapper Alvin 'Nivla'Augustine, Punjabi folk singer Parag 'P. Oberoi'Oberoi, Sharad 'DJ Sharad'Bhavani and sound engineer Raj 'RVM Sounds' Makhija. In (11) below, I present a short excerpt of the beginning of the rap lyrics (see http://www. youtube. ...

Erosion of case and agreement in Hindi heritage speakers

Linguistic Approaches to …, Jan 1, 2012

... Page 2. 142 Silvina Montrul, Rakesh Bhatt and Archna Bhatia ... Page 4. 144 Silvina Montrul, ... more ... Page 2. 142 Silvina Montrul, Rakesh Bhatt and Archna Bhatia ... Page 4. 144 Silvina Montrul, RakeshBhatt and Archna Bhatia to complex structures. Many structural, semantic and pragmatic aspects of the language do not reach full mastery until adolescence (Berman, 2004). ...

On the absence of CP in adult L2 syntax

Second Language Research Forum, Oct, Jan 1, 1997

Romance syntax, semantics and L2 acquisition: selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February …

... Adjective Position and Interpretation in L2 French 27 Bruce Anderson French Complex Inversion... more ... Adjective Position and Interpretation in L2 French 27 Bruce Anderson French Complex Inversion in the Light of a Minimalist Program 43 Cedric Boeckx Optionality, Presupposition, and WH-in situ in French 57 Cedric Boeckx, Penka Stateva & Arthur Stepanov Word Order Shift ...

Code-switching and optimal grammars

Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of …, Jan 1, 2008

1 Introduction This paper presents an analysis of the sociolinguistic functions of code-switching... more 1 Introduction This paper presents an analysis of the sociolinguistic functions of code-switching in terms of the interaction and optimal satisfaction of five socio-cognitive principles we propose that generalize over 130 functions that have been assigned to code-switching in the 110 ...

Language identity, conflict, and convergence in South Asia

Studies in the Linguistic Social Sciences, Jan 1, 1992

Bilingualism: Language and …, Jan 1, 2011

In this article, we provide a framework of bilingual grammar that offers a theoretical understand... more In this article, we provide a framework of bilingual grammar that offers a theoretical understanding of the socio-cognitive bases of code-switching in terms of five general principles that, individually or through interaction with each other, explain how and why specific instances of code-switching arise. We provide cross-linguistic empirical evidence to claim that these general sociolinguistic principles, stated as socio-cognitive constraints on code-switching, characterize multi-linguistic competence in so far as they are able to show how "local" functions of code-switching arise as specific instantiations of these "global" principles, or (products of) their interactions.

Nominative Objects in Kashmiri

Linguistic Society of American meeting. Los Angeles, …, Jan 1, 1993

SLA Paradigms

World Englishes, and the Sacred Imagined Community. …, Jan 1, 1997

On the native/non-native distinction

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS STUDIES AND …, Jan 1, 2007

... system (" na-Page 66. 56 Rakesh M. Bhatt tive" English) is able to ... more ... system (" na-Page 66. 56 Rakesh M. Bhatt tive" English) is able to establish a global standard; such a standard is sim-ply internal to itself but is successfully portrayed as universal. The standard ... world (cf. Ramanathan 1999). Semi-periphery ...

Syllable Weight, Universal Grammar, and the Metrical Structure of Kashmiri