Duelling Languages: Grammatical Structure in Codeswitching

by Carol Myers-Scotton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198240597
• ISBN13: 9780198240594
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.8"