Intrasentential code switching and pronouns: on the categorial status of functional elements

Jake, Janice L.

doi:10.1515/ling.1994.32.2.271

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“…Arabic personal pronouns before English pronouns also occur as lone elements (40). (40) iḥna (we) we're renting the house Myers-Scotton and her collaborators (Jake, 1994;Myers-Scotton, 2010;MyersScotton et al, 1996;Okasha, 1999) explain pronoun doubling as a consequence of the incongruence in the pronoun system of Arabic and English that serves as a predictable way to satisfy the requirements of English and Arabic. Muysken (2000: 181), on the other hand, states that pronoun doubling is an instance of alternation since the doubled pronoun appears in the left-dislocated position.…”

Section: Cps With English As MLmentioning

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English lexical items in Egyptian Arabic. Code-switching or borrowing?

Kniaź

2017

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The study aims to answer the question of whether lone English items that occur in Arabic-English code-switching are borrowings or code-switches. This is based on empirical data collected at the American University in Cairo. The data were analyzed within the framework of the Matrix Language Frame model. 3443 bilingual projections of complementizer (CP) were investigated. They were divided into two types: (1) CPs with Arabic as the Matrix Language (ML) and (2) CPs with English as the ML. The analysis shows a clear discrepancy between categories of items used in the two types. In Arabic CPs, the most frequently switched category concerns English nouns related to the field of study and academic life as well as Standard Arabic in monolingual discourse. The interviews conducted with the participants in the study revealed that they were mostly used due to the lack of Arabic equivalents at the speakers' disposal. In English CPs, mainly Arabic conjunctions and discourse markers appear. We claim that this categorial and functional variation between Arabic and English results from the linguistic situation in the Arab world. For bilingual speakers in Arabic diglossic communities, educated in schools with instruction in English and nonproficient in Standard Arabic, English items are the only means to communicate in many fields. Such items become part of their mental lexicon and thus should be considered as borrowings even if they are not established loans.

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Section: Cps With English As MLmentioning

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English lexical items in Egyptian Arabic. Code-switching or borrowing?

Kniaź

2017

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“…(40) iḥna (we) we're renting the house Myers-Scotton and her collaborators (Jake, 1994;Myers-Scotton, 2010;MyersScotton et al, 1996;Okasha, 1999) explain pronoun doubling as a consequence of the incongruence in the pronoun system of Arabic and English that serves as a predictable way to satisfy the requirements of English and Arabic. Muysken (2000: 181), on the other hand, states that pronoun doubling is an instance of alternation since the doubled pronoun appears in the left-dislocated position.…”

Section: Alicante Journal Of English Studiesmentioning

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“…2. IL is a developing linguistic system, and, like other linguistic systems, its abstract lexical structure contains several discrete but interacting subsystems: lexicalconceptual structure, which conflates universally available semantic and pragmatic information; predicate-argument structure, which specifies the properties of verbs in different subcategories and how the expressed arguments are encoded grammatically; morphological realization patterns, which spell out surface devices for word order, case, agreement, tense/aspect marking, and so on (De Bot and Schreuder 1993;Myers-Scotton 1994Jake 1994;Jake 1995, 1999;Wei 1996aWei , 2001. Such an abstract lexical structure in IL may have different sources (Wei 1996b(Wei , 2000a(Wei , 2000b.…”

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“…L1 transfer in lexical-conceptual structure results in inappropriate lexical choices. Wei (1994Wei ( , 1996aWei ( , 1996b reports evidence that learners acquire simple TL content morphemes first which match up possible L1 conflation categories of semantic notions (i.e., several semantic notions are conflated in a single lexical item) (Talmy 1985;Pinker 1989aPinker , 1989bJake 1994). …”

Section: L1 Lexical-conceptual Structure In Il Constructionmentioning

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The Composite Nature of Interlanguage as a Developing System

Wei

2009

RiL

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The Composite Nature of Interlanguage as a Developing System This paper explores the nature of interlanguage (IL) as a developing system with a focus on the abstract lexical structure underlying IL construction. The developing system of IL is assumed to be ‘composite’ in that in second language acquisition (SLA) several linguistic systems are in contact, each of which may contribute different amounts to the developing system. The lexical structure is assumed to be ‘abstract’ in that the mental lexicon contains abstract elements called ‘lemmas’, which contain information about individual lexemes, and lemmas in the bilingual mental lexicon are language-specific and are in contact in IL production. Based on the research findings, it concludes that language transfer in IL production should be understood as lemma transfer of the learner's first language (L1) lexical structure at three abstract levels: lexical-conceptual structure, predicate-argument structure, and morphological realization patterns, and IL construction is driven by an incompletely acquired abstract lexical structure of a target language (TL) item.

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Intrasentential code switching and pronouns: on the categorial status of functional elements

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English lexical items in Egyptian Arabic. Code-switching or borrowing?

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