Code-switching, word order and the lexical/functional category distinction

Chan, Brian Hok-Shing

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2007.05.004

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“…On the other hand, if the verb were provided from a VO language like English, VO order would be obtained. The KE and JE CS examples in (2) and (3) seem to confirm this prediction.…”

Section: The Language Of the Verb Determines The Position Of The Objementioning

confidence: 56%

“…In (2), the verb comes from either Korean (naynoh 'present' in (2a)) or Japanese (moratta 'got' in (2b)), and the word order is OV, as predicted by (1). In contrast, in the examples in (3) where the verb is from English (like in (3a) and knew in (3b)), the resulting word order is VO.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The present study investigates code-switching (CS), the concurrent use of more than one language in a conversation, commonly observed in bilingual speech. Under the assumption that CS is not random but subject to universal principles [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9], just like monolingual grammars, this study provides a grammatical account of CS, with particular emphasis on OV~VO variation in two typologically similar language pairs, Korean-English (KE) and Japanese-English (JE), which exhibit a number of interesting features that need to be explained. Due to their canonical word order difference, Korean and Japanese being SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) and English SVO (Subject-Verb-Object), a code-switched sentence can take, in principle, either OV or VO order, both of which are attested in the KE and JE CS literature [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17].…”

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Mixed Verbs in Code-Switching: The Syntax of Light Verbs

Shim

2016

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This study investigates word order variation in Korean-English and Japanese-English code-switching, with specific focus on the relative placement of the object and the verb in two contrasting word orders, Object-Verb (OV) vs. Verb-Object (VO). The results of an experiment eliciting code-switching judgment data provides strong evidence indicating that the distinction between heavy vs. light verbs plays a major role in deriving different word orders in mixed verb constructions in Korean-English and Japanese-English code-switching. In particular, an explanation pursued in this research supports the hypothesis that parametric variation is attributed to differences in the features of a functional category in the lexicon, as assumed in Minimalist Syntax.

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“…On the other hand, if the verb were provided from a VO language like English, VO order would be obtained. The KE and JE CS examples in (2) and (3) seem to confirm this prediction.…”

Section: The Language Of the Verb Determines The Position Of The Objementioning

confidence: 56%

Section: A Wonderful Ideas-lulmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Mixed Verbs in Code-Switching: The Syntax of Light Verbs

Shim

2016

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“…Despite of the plethora of research conducted on code-switching, Lawson and Sachdev (2000) claim that the topic attitudes towards code switching is the most neglected area with this field of research and (Holmes, 2001 andGill andAhmed, 2014) argue that there are clashed perceptions of code-switch as whether it is a positive and negative strategy in classrooms and Dweik (2000) supposes that code-switching may result in meddling at phonological level and cultural level in any learning episode. Code-switching is usually deemed a sign of lack of good education or inappropriate control of two or more languages (Holmes, 2001;Chan, 2008). Asali (2011) refers this negative view of code-switching to the social norm that does not support the use of mixed languages in academic settings.…”

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Mechatronics Engineers’ Perception of Code Mixing: Philadelphia University and Hashemite University as a Case Study

Al-Khawaldeh

Bani-Khair

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It has recently been widely recognized that code-switching is prevalent in Jordanians' daily conversation in various situations such as home, cafés, universities, restaurants and clubs. Abalhassan and Alshalawi (2000: 183) made a very related observation on code switching behavior among Arab speakers of English that "without exception, all respondents switched into English to some degree". This could be referred to the increase number of technological advances and people travelling across countries for pleasure or for pursuing further education. In light of this observation, the crucial role of language in people's life, ambivalent attitudes towards code-switching (Akbar, 2007), the dearth of research in this area, such a present study is required to explore Jordanian university students' and instructors' perceptions of code-switching in their daily classroom conversation and its expected impact on their language proficiency. In particular, it investigates the factors leading them to code mix and their underlying attitudes towards its expected future impact on their language proficiency. To the best knowledge of the present researcher, this study is the first of its kind in Jordan. Data was collected via semi-structured interviews and a questionnaire from 70 university students and 30 instructors from both Philadelphia University and the Hashemite University. Data revealed that code mixing between English and Arabic is a common phenomenon in lectures they have attended in their academic institutions. The participants also show that they find code mixing fascinating and believe that though code switching might have a positive impact on their learning as it helps them better understand the topic. The instructors revealed that code mixing fulfill a set of functions that serve the educational process.

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“…Tree Adjoining Grammar in Mahootian, 1993;Santorini & Mahootian, 1995;Mahootian & Santorini, 1996) or different versions of generative grammar (e.g. Chan, 2003Chan, , 2008 and these accounts come up with different empirical predictions (see reviews in Chan, 2003Chan, , 2008Chan, , 2009. Actually, before the idea of the Null Theory was clearly articulated by Mahootian (1993), there had been various attempts to extend syntactic notions based on monolingual phenomena to the description of CS data (e.g.…”

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A diachronic-functional approach to explaining grammatical patterns in code-switching: Postmodification in Cantonese–English noun phrases

Chan

2013

International Journal of Bilingualism

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One major controversy in the study of code-switching (CS) has been the treatment of structural regularities or patterns. Formal approaches attribute these patterns to syntactic constraints or models that are independent of socio-pragmatic or discourse factors, and hence they fall short of accounting for the variation and diachrony of CS constructions. Functional approaches call for due consideration of inter-and intra-speaker variation and discourse or processing factors, but they do not seem to go very far in pinpointing precisely what factors motivate a particular structural pattern. This paper attempts to integrate these two approaches in examining an emergent pattern in Cantonese-English CS in which postmodifying phrases are attested with English prepositions. The form of the construction may well be captured by some version of the Null Theory, but nonetheless it has little to say about why it is a new and variant pattern in Cantonese-English CS. This paper suggests that the construction is prompted by discourse factors such as salience, information status (i.e. given versus new) and heaviness (of the modifying noun phrase); typological differences (i.e. word order difference between Cantonese and English) and syntactic properties of words (such as prepositions) also have a role to play. Diachronically, this paper suggests that the construction evolves from a continuous English noun phrase with a further switch, which this paper terms "reinsertion", within this noun phrase. Variants and possible changes of this postmodifier construction are also discussed in the light of "reinsertion" and "schematization". Postmodification in Cantonese-English noun phrasesThis paper explores a diachronic and functional account of code-switching (CS) patterns while paying due attention to their form. The code-switched construction under scrutiny here shows a pattern

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Code-switching, word order and the lexical/functional category distinction

Cited by 111 publications

References 36 publications

Mixed Verbs in Code-Switching: The Syntax of Light Verbs

Mixed Verbs in Code-Switching: The Syntax of Light Verbs

Mechatronics Engineers’ Perception of Code Mixing: Philadelphia University and Hashemite University as a Case Study

A diachronic-functional approach to explaining grammatical patterns in code-switching: Postmodification in Cantonese–English noun phrases

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