URDU ENGLISH CODE SWITCHING AND CODE MIXING IN INDIA. A CASE STUDY OF THE USE OF URDU HINDI AT PHRASES AND CLAUSES LEVELS IN INDIAN HINGLISH (HINDI ENGLISH)

Social and communicative significance of code switching and code mixing has been well researched by sociolinguists worldwide; this paper aims to discuss how code switching and code mixing affect the languages in contact. The study sets out to investigate Urdu-English code switching and mixing at different levels with the basic aim to understand about how influence of English is generating a new variety of Hindi/ Urdu English language. The study sets out to investigate Urdu-English code switching at phrase and clause level. This paper suggests that variations and changes in a language are an integral part of bilingualism and multilingualism. All the present data shows that the occurrences of various Urdu phrases and clauses impose no ungrammatical effect on the construction of English syntax.