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Duelling Languages : Grammatical Structure in Codeswitching by Carol Myers-Scotton is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The goal of this book, a companion volume to Social Motivations for Codeswitching (Oxford, 1993) is to describe and explain intrasentential codeswitching--the production of two or more languages within the same sentence. Most linguists who do not study codeswitching think of it as belonging strictly in the domain of sociolinguistics. Most codeswitching studies do indeed have a social aspect, because they typically use naturally occurring performance data as their base. This book, however, is just as much a study in grammatical theory as a study of language in use. The specific research question addressed is this: when speakers alternate between two or more linguistic varieties, how free is this alternation from the structural point of view? Carol Myers-Scotton develops a model of the morphosyntactic constraints on codeswitching and concludes that the principles governing codeswitching are the same everywhere.

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Author

Carol Myers-Scotton

Publisher

Clarendon Press

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9786114636953

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Grammar, Dictionaries & Phrasebooks, Language