The Role of Functional Heads in Code-Switching Evidence from Swiss Text Messages (sms4science.ch)

Robert-Tissot, Aurélia; Morel, Etienne

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“…In the Balkans, Kyuchukov (2006) analyzed C-S between Turkish-Bulgarian and Romani in Bulgaria. C-S between dialects and/or standard vs. minority languages in computer mediated interaction was analyzed by Siebenhaar ( 2006) among Swiss-German dialects and by Robert-Tissot and Morel (2017) through SMS corpora collected across Germanic (i.e. English and German) and Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian) in Switzerland.…”

Section: C-s Across Languages: European Contextmentioning

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A Survey of Code-switching: Linguistic and Social Perspectives for Language Technologies

Doğruöz¹,

Sitaram²,

Bullock³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Confer

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The analysis of data in which multiple languages are represented has gained popularity among computational linguists in recent years. So far, much of this research focuses mainly on the improvement of computational methods and largely ignores linguistic and social aspects of C-S discussed across a wide range of languages within the long-established literature in linguistics. To fill this gap, we offer a survey of code-switching (C-S) covering the literature in linguistics with a reflection on the key issues in language technologies. From the linguistic perspective, we provide an overview of structural and functional patterns of C-S focusing on the literature from European and Indian contexts as highly multilingual areas. From the language technologies perspective, we discuss how massive language models fail to represent diverse C-S types due to lack of appropriate training data, lack of robust evaluation benchmarks for C-S (across multilingual situations and types of C-S) and lack of end-toend systems that cover sociolinguistic aspects of C-S as well. Our survey will be a step towards an outcome of mutual benefit for computational scientists and linguists with a shared interest in multilingualism and C-S.

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Section: C-s Across Languages: European Contextmentioning

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A Survey of Code-switching: Linguistic and Social Perspectives for Language Technologies

Doğruöz¹,

Sitaram²,

Bullock³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Confer

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“…These articles collectively investigate one of the key theoretical issues that generative linguists have pursued for a long time: how languages are encoded similarly or differently. In so doing, three articles concentrate on nominal complements and clausal complements in monolingual grammars [18][19][20], and four articles focus on nominal and clausal complements in bilingual grammars [21][22][23][24].…”

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“…As for bilingual contexts, Robert-Tissot and Morel [21] use a Swiss corpus of code-switching text messages to test two principles proposed by González Vilbazo [27]: (i) the Principle of Functional Restriction (i.e., two functional heads X • and Y • have to be filled by lexical material of the same language if the functional category of YP is the complement of X • and both heads are part of the same extended projection); and (ii) the Principle of Agreement (i.e., inside a phrase, agreement requirements have to be satisfied, regardless of the language providing the lexical material). They discuss specific examples that mostly confirm the validity of the principles, showing the structured nature of code-switching as well as contributing to the growing consensus that it is possible to predict the nature of grammatical and ungrammatical code-switched sequences.…”

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“…In both studies (one by Robert-Tissot and Morel [21] and the other by López et al [22]), the validity of the Principle of Functional Restriction (PFR) is tested. The PFR prohibits code-switching between two functional heads belonging in the same extended projection.…”

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“…However, both studies found counter-examples that allow code-switching in the left periphery of nominal and clausal domains. For instance, a switch may occur between a D (Italian) and a Q (French) [21] and between a C (Spanish) and T (German) if Spec C is not empty [22]. To account for these examples, Robert-Tissot and Morel resort to a non-structural account, whereas López et al offer a phase-based syntactic analysis.…”

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Introducing the Special Issue: Clausal and Nominal Complements in Monolingual and Bilingual Grammars

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To introduce this Special Issue entitled Clausal and Nominal Complements in Monolingual and Bilingual Grammars, we begin by explaining what originally motivated this Special Issue. The first two co-editors (Ji Young Shim and Tabea Ihsane) worked on the research project entitled Selection at the Interfaces, in which various linguistic aspects (e.g., syntactic structure, interface with semantics, etc.) of clausal and nominal complements in monolingual grammars were explored. 1 To extend an investigation of these issues to bilingual contexts, they organized a two-day workshop entitled Clausal and Nominal Complements in Monolingual and Bilingual Grammars in June 2016, where the third co-editor (M. Carmen Parafita Couto) of this Special Issue was an invited speaker. 2 The workshop aimed to investigate the left periphery of complements, in particular the left periphery of the clause and the nominal phrase and its edge, such as C(omplementizers) and D(eterminer) and other topmost functional layers, where languages may be parametrized differently, thus leading to linguistic variation. Within generative grammar, it has long been assumed that language variation is due to variation in the domain of functional categories and their morpho-syntactic properties [1,2]. Following this tradition, the left periphery of the clause has been extensively investigated, confirming the hypothesis that the functional category C(omplementizer) and its morpho-syntactic properties may be parameterized differently across languages within research on monolingual grammar [3-6]. In addition, the left periphery of a nominal phrase has also been investigated to a great extent [7-9], based on the proposal that clauses and nominal phrases have parallel structures ([10] and in subsequent work). In recent years, generative linguists have also started to pay attention to the left periphery of bilingual grammars, especially in relation to diverse patterns of code-switching, which is the mixed use of two or more languages in conversation, and which is frequently observed in bilingual speech. Under the assumption that monolingual and bilingual grammars are subject to the same grammatical principles [11-14], several researchers have investigated the grammar of code-switching in various language pairs and showed that the left periphery of a particular functional category such as C, D, or v may be parameterized differently across languages and derive certain patterns of code-switching, 1 The projected was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (#100012_146699/1), and the second Editor was the principal investigator of the project. 2 The workshop was funded by the University of Geneva and the Swiss National Science Foundation.

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The Role of Functional Heads in Code-Switching Evidence from Swiss Text Messages (sms4science.ch)

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A Survey of Code-switching: Linguistic and Social Perspectives for Language Technologies

A Survey of Code-switching: Linguistic and Social Perspectives for Language Technologies

Introducing the Special Issue: Clausal and Nominal Complements in Monolingual and Bilingual Grammars

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