LING 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Agglutinative Language, Chemise, Code-Mixing
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Observation: the closer the functional category is to the lexical one, the more likely it is to participate in code mixing. Tensed verbs are least often inserted; participles -- category aspect (e. g. , hidden, or hiding)-- are more likely to be inserted. T selects (licenses) the nominative subject - therefore, a tensed verb from language b may not be able to successfully license a nominative subject from language a. However, if a bare verb, or a verb bearing aspectual features only is inserted, the categorical specification of t is not affected. A bare noun is embedded in layers of (often abstract) functional projections. So a bare noun from language b can occur embedded in functional structure of language a. Claim: in contrast to affixes in inflectional languages, affixes in agglutinating languages are less selective . Explains why the most frequent violations of the fmc come from agglutinating languages.
