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Constraints on Language Mixing: Intrasentential Code-Switching and Borrowing in Spanish/English
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Mixture of Spanish and English, whether in isolated loan words or in code-switching of clauses and sentences, while socially motivated, is subject to clear linguistic constraints. Quantitative analysis of mixing in conversations of Mexican-Americans suggests specific functional constraints to express tense/aspect/mood and subject/object relationships, as well as structural constraints which permit only surface structures which are grammatical in both languages. Resolution of structural conflict plays a key role, so that lexical cores trigger longer phrasal switches if they govern rules which create non-shared surface structures. The relative frequency of mixes without structural conflict is constrained by discourse function.
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- Pfaff, C. W.
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- JSTOR
- Published
- 1979-06
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 291
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- 0097-8507 (ISSN-L)
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