LING 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Language Death, Language Shift, First Language
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The licensing of tensed verbs in code mixing. The verb moves to tns/infl to check features. By the way, this is problematic: for mcswan because head movement occurs at pf. Only possible if tns & verb are compatible . More generally: successful head adjunction presupposes that tns/agr affix selects the stem (ok only when stem is phonologically integrated into host language) But there are still problems, (work to be done): Il switchait toujours dans la mauvaise direction. (my corpus, mn) Il catchait jamais la balle. (many speakers accept) Note: ok, even through switch" and catch" are not phonologically integrated into. Nothing constrains code switching apart from the requirements of the mixed grammars (mcswan 2004) Elements in a checking relation must be equivalent (recasting of muysken) Problem: not everybody believes that head movement is exclusively a pf operation!! *[x"xy ], where y cannot be licensed by x. In fusional languages, affixes (tns, agr, number, )
