Bilingual Speech: A Typology of Code-Mixing

ISBN-13: 9780521771689 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 324 str.

Pieter Muysken

Opis

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the different ways in which bilingual speakers switch from one language to another in the course of conversation. Pieter Muysken identifies three distinct patterns of mixing and explores how different mixing strategies depend on the contrasting grammatical properties of the languages involved, the degree of bilingual competence of the speaker and various social factors. The book synthesizes a vast array of recent research in a rapidly growing field of study that has much to reveal about the structure and function of language.

Recenzje

'The book's most obvious contribution is in bringing together a huge range of evidence from the field of language contact and proposing a way of fitting it into a coherent framework … Bilingual Speech should be compulsory reading not only for those interested in the grammar of bilingual productions but for anyone seriously interested in grammatical debates.' Journal of Sociolinguistics

Spis treści

1. The study of code-mixing; 2. Differences and similarities between languages; 3. Insertion; 4. Alternation; 5. Congruent lexicalization; 6. Function words; 7. Bilingual verbs; 8. Variation in mixing patterns; 9. Bilingual speech and language contact.