Grammatical Theory and Bilingual Codeswitching

by Jeff MacSwan
Grammatical Theory and Bilingual Codeswitching
Author: Jeff MacSwan
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2014-12-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0262027895
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Part III: Codeswitching and the LF Interface -- 9 The Semantic Interpretation and Syntactic Distribution of Determiner Phrases in Spanish-English Codeswitching -- 10 Codeswitching and the Syntax-Semantics Interface -- Part IV: Codeswitching and Language Processing -- 11 A Minimalist Parsing Model for Codeswitching -- 12 Language Dominance and Codeswitching Asymmetries -- Contributors -- Index

The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism

by Tej K. Bhatia
The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Author: Tej K. Bhatia
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 978
Release: 2012-09-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1118332415
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**Honored as a 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title** Comprising state-of-the-art research, this substantially expanded and revised Handbook discusses the latest global and interdisciplinary issues across bilingualism and multilingualism. Includes the addition of ten new authors to the contributor team, and coverage of seven new topics ranging from global media to heritage language learning Provides extensively revised coverage of bilingual and multilingual communities, polyglot aphasia, creolization, indigenization, linguistic ecology and endangered languages, multilingualism, and forensic linguistics Brings together a global team of internationally-renowned researchers from different disciplines Covers a wide variety of topics, ranging from neuro- and psycho-linguistic research to studies of media and psychological counseling Assesses the latest issues in worldwide linguistics, including the phenomena and the conceptualization of 'hyperglobalization', and emphasizes geographical centers of global conflict and commerce

One Speaker, Two Languages

by Lesley Milroy
One Speaker, Two Languages
Author: Lesley Milroy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1995-08-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521479127
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Code-switching - the alternating use of several languages by bilingual speakers - does not usually indicate lack of competence on the part of the speaker in any of the languages concerned, but results from complex bilingual skills. The reasons why people switch their codes are as varied as the directions from which linguists approach this issue, and raise many sociological, psychological, and grammatical questions. This volume of essays by leading scholars brings together the main strands of current research in four major areas: the policy implications of code-switching in specific institutional and community settings; the perspective of social theory on code-switching as a form of speech behaviour in particular social contexts; the grammatical analysis of code-switching, including the factors that constrain switching even within a sentence; and the implications of code-switching in bilingual processing and development.

Duelling Languages

by Carol Myers-Scotton
Duelling Languages
Author: Carol Myers-Scotton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1997
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780198237129
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As much a study in grammatical theory as of language in use, the aim of this book is to describe and explain intrasential codeswitching - the production of two or more languages within the same sentence.

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code Switching

by Ludmila Isurin
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code Switching
Author: Ludmila Isurin
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027241783
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The volume presents a selection of contributions by leading scholars in the field of code-switching. In the past the phenomenon of code-switching was studied within different subfields of linguistics and they all took their own perspectives on code-switching without taking into account findings from other subdisciplines. This book raises a question of a much broader multidisciplinary approach to studying the phenomenon of code-switching, calls for integration of disciplines; and illustrates how frameworks from one subfield can be applied to models in another. The volume includes survey chapters, empirical studies, contributions that use empirical data to test new hypotheses about code-switching, or suggest new approaches and models for the study of code-switching, and chapters that discuss principles and constraints of code-switching, and code-switching vs. transfer. The book is easily accessible to anyone who is interested in the phenomenon of code-switching in bilinguals.

Bilingual Speech

by Pieter Muysken
Bilingual Speech
Author: Pieter Muysken
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2000-12-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521771684
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This book provides an in depth analysis of the different ways in which bilingual speakers switch from one language to another in the course of conversation. This phenomenon, known as code-mixing or code-switching, takes many forms. Pieter Muysken adopts a comparative approach to distinguish between the different types of code-mixing, drawing on a wealth of data from bilingual settings throughout the world. His study identifies three fundamental and distinct patterns of mixing - 'insertion', 'alternation' and 'congruent lexicalization' - and sets out to discover whether the choice of a particular mixing strategy depends on the contrasting grammatical properties of the languages involved, the degree of bilingual competence of the speaker or various social factors. The book synthesizes a vast array of recent research in a rapidly growing field of study which has much to reveal about the structure and function of language.

Grammatical Theory

by Frederick J. Newmeyer
Grammatical Theory
Author: Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1983-09-15
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780226577197
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Newmeyer persuasively defends the controversial theory of transformational generative grammar. Grammatical Theory is for every linguist, philosopher, or psychologist who is skeptical of generative grammar and wants to learn more about it. Newmeyer's formidable scholarship raises the level of debate on transformational generative grammar. He stresses the central importance of an autonomous formal grammar, discusses the limitations of "discourse-based" approaches to syntax, cites support for generativist theory in recent research, and clarifies misunderstood concepts associated with generative grammar.

Code-switching in Bilingual Children

by Katja F. Cantone
Code-switching in Bilingual Children
Author: Katja F. Cantone
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2007-03-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1402057849
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This volume demonstrates that mixed utterances in young bilinguals can be analyzed in the same way as adult code-switching. It provides new insights not only in the field of code-switching and of language mixing in young bilinguals, but also in issues concerning general questions on linguistic theory which are difficult to be answered with monolingual data.

Bilingual Grammar

by Luis López
Bilingual Grammar
Author: Luis López
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2020-04-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1108485308
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An extended argument that bilingual speakers have an integrated linguistic competence, rather than two separate grammatical systems.