Grammatical Constraints on Intrasentential Code Switching: Evidence From English-Afrikaans Code Switching

Gass, Kate Van

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“…Despite the fact that extensive research has been done on CS, in general, and on Afrikaans-SAE CS, specifically (cf., amongst others, Lawrence 1999; Finlayson and Slabbert 1997;van Gass 2002;Rose and van Dulm 2006;van Dulm 2002van Dulm , 2007Stell 2009Stell , 2010 limited research has been done on the interactional function of CS between Afrikaans and SAE in child bilingual speech. The lack of research examining Afrikaans-English bilingual children and their specific language choices as they occur in spontaneous conversation therefore provided sufficient motivation for the study reported on here.…”

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Analysing Afrikaans-English bilingual children’s conversational code switching

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Huddlestone

2013

Stellenbosch pap. linguist.

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It has been observed that children mix languages more often if they have been exposed to mixed speech, especially if they are in bilingual company. Very little research, however, exists on the code switching (CS) of children brought up in multilingual contexts. The study discussed in this paper investigates the grammatical and socio-pragmatic characteristics of the conversational CS of three Afrikaans-English bilingual children and aims to contribute towards a better understanding of child CS. The study was conducted through the analysis of spontaneous conversational CS elicited during multiple play sessions. Data were analysed within the frameworks of the Matrix Language Frame (MLF) model and Conversation Analysis (CA). The study accounts for the different types of CS that occur, and examines which grammatical and/or socio-pragmatic difficulties may drive children to use specific types of CS, while also considering whether the context of an utterance has an influence on how and why CS takes place.

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Analysing Afrikaans-English bilingual children’s conversational code switching

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Huddlestone

2013

Stellenbosch pap. linguist.

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Language Model and Grammatical Constraints on Code-Switching in The Case of Bahasa Indonesia-Chinese

2020

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Code-switching refers to the process of mixing different language features within a single passage that may cause a contrasting effect. This study aims to reveal the grammatical constraints on intra-sentential code-switching in the case of Bahasa Indonesia-Chinese by collecting the data of code-switching of 14 Indonesian students in Tianjin. The result finds that The language model in the case of Bahasa Indonesia-Chinese code-switching shows that Bahasa Indonesia is the dominant language for most cases. However, the switched with the same structure with Chinese, and have the same frequent occurrence of morpheme cannot be assigned into the ML and EL, only switched cases with system morpheme, and Bahasa Indonesia is the frequent morphemes can be accounted into ML or EL. The cases of switched sentences between the aspect of time and verb answer the assumption that a switch may occur even at the surface structure of the participant languages that do not map onto each other. Moreover, the free morpheme constraint analysis using the minimalist program, the bound morphemes of Bahasa Indonesia that denote determiner and possessive, can be cut from its position to project the maximal projection in VP, and still, retain a free morpheme. This finding does not violate the free morpheme constraint theory. However, the passive form switched shows that a switch occurs between bound morpheme and the lexical. The bound morpheme cannot be cut and retain a free morpheme. The switched sentences that are analyzed by the minimalist program, moreover, the result finds that when the bound morpheme cut from its position to retain a free morpheme, it falls under the lower constituent under PP.

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Grammatical Constraints on Intrasentential Code Switching: Evidence From English-Afrikaans Code Switching

Cited by 2 publications

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Analysing Afrikaans-English bilingual children’s conversational code switching

Analysing Afrikaans-English bilingual children’s conversational code switching

Language Model and Grammatical Constraints on Code-Switching in The Case of Bahasa Indonesia-Chinese

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