LING 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Parsing, Alejandro Lerner, Equivalence Principle
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We will focus on linguistic (structural, grammatical) constraints on code mixing. Muysken: these three types of code switching are not mutually exclusive (although they are often taken to be so); rather, there are in fact different kinds of code switching which can co-exist. Insertional code mixing (often associated with work by myers scotton) One language (matrix) provides the morphosyntactic frame, determining grammatical properties such as word order and inflectional morphology. Yo anduve in a state of shock por dos dias. Alternation (often associated with the work of poplack) Code switching involves alternation between the structures of the two languages. There exists a true switch : grammar & lexicon of each language used. Women and wine, i don"t understand (note the null subject in the russian portion, which would be ungrammatical in french, and the articles in french portion, which do not exist in russian. )
