Code-mixing, language variation, and linguistic theory:

Bokamba, Eyamba G

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“…GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE IN C S : THE MATRIX LANGUAGE-FRAME MODELIn the last 15 years, many researchers have tried to determine whether there are structural constraints on the point in a sentence where speakers may switch. Many have proposed such constraints; however, others have followed them with counterexamples to parts or all of their constraints (cf Bokamba 1988, Clyne 1987, Romaine 1989…”

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Common and uncommon ground: Social and structural factors in codeswitching

1993

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The social forces affecting the performance of codeswitching (CS) may be distinguished from those factors controlling its basic structure, with which they interact. The constraints on possible patterns in CS are largely under innately based controls. These constraints are presented here in a model of intrasentential CS, and their validity is tested against findings of CS practices in a number of communities; all options can be accounted for under the model. Thus the options for CS structures seem universally set; but community-specific or group-specific social forces may determine which permissible patterns are preferred. In addition, micro-level, discourse-based factors may prompt individuals to produce certain CS structures. A second model of the social motivations for CS helps explain both the macro-and micro-level preferences. (Bilingualism, codeswitching, language contact, socio-pragmatics)* At first glance, the structural "mix" of languages in codeswitching (hereafter CS) seems very diverse. Furthermore, many speakers who frequently engage in CS become rugged individualists when they report on their own CS performance, insisting that their form of CS is a law unto itself. Yet a search for universally valid constraints marks much of the extensive research on CS in the last 10 years.Nevertheless, counterexamples to far-reaching claims, rather than support, prevailed at the end of the 1980s. This state of affairs has stimulated two types of responses. Bentahila & Davies (1992:444) argue that the effects of social and psychological factors on structural patterns have been neglected:The reason why the search for universal constraints has not been more successful, we suspect, is that it has tended to focus almost exclusively on the syntactic dimension of code-switching, treating switching patterns as purely structural phenomena rather than setting them within a social and psychological context . . . In particular, we feel that more attention should be

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Common and uncommon ground: Social and structural factors in codeswitching

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“…The assumption now is that if grammar were the only influential factor in code switching, syntactic constraints would always apply and explain all (intrasentential) code Switches. The fact that syntactic constraints are violated so often (Bokamba 1988;Nortier 1990a) plus the fact that none of them seems to have universal value show that code switching cannot be accounted for in terms of syntax alone. In the last few years, however, there has been a tendency to combine linguistic and extralinguistic factors in order to explain the (ir-)regularities in code-switching patterns (Boeschoten 1990, among others).…”

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Code switching in Moroccan Arabic/Dutch vs. Moroccan Arabic/French language contact

Nortier¹

1995

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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“…I have shown in the course of the discussion that some of the syntactic constraints on CM that are often purported as 'universal' do not seem to apply to Shona-English CM as attested by the numerous counter examples in this article. Along the same lines, Gibbons (1987) on Cantonese-English, Bokamba (1988) on Lingala-English CM and Kamwangamalu (1989) on French/EnglishBantu CM, to mention only a few, have also questioned the universal status of such constraints as the free morpheme constraint. I therefore, argue for the validity of MyersScotton's Matrix Language Framework model as an ideal principle for governing ShonaEnglish CM, except in its application to predicative adjectives occurring with the auxiliary verb /-ri/.…”

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Shona-English code-mixing in the speech of students at the University of Zimbabwe

Mashiri

2002

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

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Code-mixing, language variation, and linguistic theory:

Cited by 105 publications

References 9 publications

Common and uncommon ground: Social and structural factors in codeswitching

Common and uncommon ground: Social and structural factors in codeswitching

Code switching in Moroccan Arabic/Dutch vs. Moroccan Arabic/French language contact

Shona-English code-mixing in the speech of students at the University of Zimbabwe

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