This book discuses codeswitching within the frame work of the Matrix -language frame mode (MLF) used in Meyers Scotton (1992, 1993, 2001). The book is within this framework studied code switching conversations between Nigerian (Shuwa) Arabic, English, Standard Arabic, Hausa and Kanuri used in Maiduguri. The work is based on corpus collected in Maiduguri with the aim of giving us an insight into codeswiching text behavior in a multi lingual setting as opposed to a bilingual type. It is often the case in (MLF Model), a bilingual codeswitching text shows one of the languages in the discourse...
This book discuses codeswitching within the frame work of the Matrix -language frame mode (MLF) used in Meyers Scotton (1992, 1993, 2001). The book is...