Bookbot

Duelling Languages

Grammatical Structure in Codeswitching

En savoir plus sur le livre

The goal of this book, a companion volume to Social Motivations for Codeswitching (Oxford, 1993) is to describe and explain intrasentential codeswitching--the production of two or more languages within the same sentence. Most linguists who do not study codeswitching think of it as belongingstrictly in the domain of sociolinguistics. Most codeswitching studies do indeed have a social aspect, because they typically use naturally occurring performance data as their base. This book, however, is just as much a study in grammatical theory as a study of language in use. The specific researchquestion addressed is when speakers alternate between two or more linguistic varieties, how free is this alternation from the structural point of view? Carol Myers-Scotton develops a model of the morphosyntactic constraints on codeswitching and concludes that the principles governingcodeswitching are the same everywhere.

Achat du livre

Duelling Languages, Carol Myers-Scotton

Langue
Année de publication
1993
product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
(rigide),
État du livre
Bon
Prix
7,49 €

Modes de paiement

Personne n'a encore évalué .Évaluer

Titre
Duelling Languages
Sous-titre
Grammatical Structure in Codeswitching
Langue
Anglais
Publié
1993
Format
rigide
Pages
278
ISBN10
0198240597
ISBN13
9780198240594
Séries
Description
The goal of this book, a companion volume to Social Motivations for Codeswitching (Oxford, 1993) is to describe and explain intrasentential codeswitching--the production of two or more languages within the same sentence. Most linguists who do not study codeswitching think of it as belongingstrictly in the domain of sociolinguistics. Most codeswitching studies do indeed have a social aspect, because they typically use naturally occurring performance data as their base. This book, however, is just as much a study in grammatical theory as a study of language in use. The specific researchquestion addressed is when speakers alternate between two or more linguistic varieties, how free is this alternation from the structural point of view? Carol Myers-Scotton develops a model of the morphosyntactic constraints on codeswitching and concludes that the principles governingcodeswitching are the same everywhere.