Producing composite codeswitching: the role of the modularity of language production  

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Amuzu, Evershed K.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Bilingualism (Full Text) vol. 18 no. 4 (Aug. 2014), page 384-407.
Topik: Composite code switching; possessive constructions; bilingualism; language production; Ewe; modularity; matrix language
Fulltext: Producing composite codeswitching.pdf (2.32MB)

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The basic characteristic of composite code switching is that the languages involved share responsibility for framing bilingual constituents. This paper points to evidence of this characteristic in the nature of morpheme distribution in mixed possessive constructions in Ewe–English code switching, spoken in Ghana. An Ewe semantic distinction between two types of possessive constructions is consistently neutralized when English possessum nominals are used instead of their Ewe counterparts, and the paper demonstrates that the neutralization of this distinction results from direct mapping of English-origin grammatical information about English nominals onto Ewe grammar. It explains that this mapping of information from one grammar onto another one is characteristic of composite code switching and that it is facilitated by the fact that language production is modular in the sense of Levelt ((1989). Speaking: From intention to articulation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) and Myers- Scotton ((1993). Duelling languages: Grammatical structure in code switching. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press; (2002). Contact linguistics: Bilingual encounters and grammatical outcomes. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press).

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