DOI: 10.5176/2251-3566_L312145
Authors: Shreesh Chaudhary
Abstract: While code-mixing, a language borrows words and phrases from a prestige language. The paper presents examples from a poetical work from the medieval India where a classical literary language borrows words and phrases from another classical literary language. The paper presents some historical notes on the text and its author, and then shows that any language can take elements from any other language at the relevant level of structure in its constituent units. There seem to be few constraints on code-mixing.
Keywords: code, level, mixing, structure, constraint, unit
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