Grammatical theory and bilingual codeswitching / edited by Jeff MacSwan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

MacSwan, Jeff, 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Code switching (Linguistics).

Education, Bilingual.

Grammaticality (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Theoretically significant work on the grammar of codeswitching by the leading researchers in the field.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Programs and Proposals in Codeswitching Research

Part I: Grammatical Analysis

2 Movement Triggers and Reflexivization in Korean-English Codeswitching

3 On the Asymmetric Nature of the Operations of Grammar

4 Operator Movement in English-Spanish and German-Spanish Codeswitching

5 Categorial Mismatches in the Syntax and the Lexicon

6 Argument Licensing in Optimal Switches

Part II: Codeswitching, Morphology, and the PF Interface

7 Light Switches

8 Some Consequences of Language Design

Part III: Codeswitching and the LF Interface

9 The Semantic Interpretation and Syntactic Distribution of Determiner Phrases in Spanish-English Codeswitching

10 Codeswitching and the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Part IV: Codeswitching and Language Processing

11 A Minimalist Parsing Model for Codeswitching

12 Language Dominance and Codeswitching Asymmetries

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262320368

0262320363

9780262320351

0262320355

OCLC:

897906417

Publisher Number:

40024436269