Borrowed Nouns; Bilingual People: The Case of the ''Londrali'' in Northern Cyprus  

Oleh:

Adalar, Nevin ; Tagliamonte, Sali

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Bilingualism (Full Text) vol. 2 no. 2 (Jul. 1998), page 139-159.
Topik: codeswitching; loanword integration; nonce borrowing; Turkish-English
Fulltext: 139-159.pdf (1.3MB)

Isi artikel

generations o f speakers from a bilingual community in northern Cyprus. Diagnostics from three arcas ofgrammar-phonology, morphology, and syntax - provide corroborating evidence that \\hen a lone noun, of either English or Turkish origin, appears in contexts in which it is surrounded by the other language, it patterns systematically in accordance with its counterparts in that other languagc. On the other hand, \vhen a lone noun, either English or Turkish, appears within a multiivord fragment o f English or Turkish, it patterns oventhelmingly with the language of its etymology. The strikingly different grammatical patterns highlight the fact that they represent tivo different types of behavior: borrowing in the former; codmiitcliing in the latter. These findings demonstrate that empirical investigation can disambiguate the community-specific status of language contact phenomena. Furthcr, contrastive analysis across generations revcals that although the generations differ in thejequencj. with nhich they use Turkish and English; thcy employ thc samc stntcgics u hcn thcy do. Thcsc stratcgics haw far morc to do with their preferred language ofdiscourse, than with any purely linguistic factor.

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