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Publisher: LOT Publication date: 2009 Number of pages: 317 This thesis presents a study of code-mixing (CM) between Sinhala and English from the perspective of typology and sociolinguistics. The first part is introductory and a description of the two languages under study. Accordingly, it deals with the origins, social context and structural properties of Sinhala and English, relevant to this study. The second part focuses on the ociolinguistic embedding of multilingualism in Sri Lanka. The findings reveal that most urban Sri Lankans code-mix in daily conversation and that CM is an alternate code to Sinhala. The third part represents the analytic core of the thesis. The language analysis based on the structural elements of the mixed constructions, elaborates on four mixed types found in the Sinhala-English bilingual corpus namely CM, borrowing, hybridization and Sinhalization. Each of these phenomena has its own structural properties, modeled most dominantly on Sinhala syntax, phonology and orphology. The findings prove that the contact between Sinhala and English has resulted in phonological xtensions and reductions in the mixed types. The morphosyntactic features of Sinhala-Engl

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Author

Chamindi Dilkushi Senaratne.

Publisher

LOT

Published

2009

Language

SI

ISBN

9789078328926

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Language