Bilingual grammar : toward an integrated model / Luis López, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

López, Luis, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bilingualism.

Code switching (Linguistics).

Minimalist theory (Linguistics).

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

viii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Does a bilingual person have two separate lexicons and two separate grammatical systems? Or should the bilingual linguistic competence be regarded as an integrated system? This book explores these questions, which are central to current debate in the study of bilingualism, and argues for an integrated hypothesis: the linguistic competence of an individual is a single cognitive faculty, and the bilingual mind should not be regarded as fundamentally different from the monolingual one. This conclusion is backed up with a variety of empirical data, in particular code-switching, drawn from a variety of bilingual pairs. López introduces key notions in minimalism and distributed morphology, making them accessible to readers with different scholarly foci. This book will be of interest to those working in linguistics and psycholinguistics, especially bilingualism, code-switching, and the lexicon"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Motivating a Unified Linguistic System

Remarks on Separationist Architectures

Phases, Distributed Morphology, and Some Contributions from Code-Switching

1Lex in MDM

Building the Case for 1Lex: Gender in Code-Switching

1PF in MDM

Lexical Questions: What Do You Learn When You Learn a Word?

Psycho-Syntactic Questions: Acquisition, Priming and Co-activation, and a Note on the Processing Cost

Convergent and Divergent Paths

General Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108485302

1108485308

OCLC:

1127668697