Building and using the Siarad Corpus : bilingual conversations in Welsh and English / Margaret Deuchar, Peredur Davies, Kevin Donnelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deuchar, M. (Margaret), author.

Davies, Peredur, author.

Donnelly, Kevin (Researcher), author.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics. 1388-0373 ; Volume 81.

Studies in corpus linguistics ; Volume 81

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bilingualism--Wales.

Code switching (Linguistics)--Wales.

Languages in contact--Wales.

Corpora (Linguistics)--Research--Methodology.

Welsh language--Grammar, Comparative--English.

English language--Grammar, Comparative--Welsh.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

Summary:

This book is a research monograph divided into two parts. The first part describes the methods used to build the first sizeable corpus of informal conversational data collected from bilingual speakers of Welsh and English: Siarad. The second part describes the linguistic analysis of data from this corpus (available at bangortalk.org.uk). The information in Part One will be useful as a ‘how to’ manual on building a bilingual spoken corpus, including methods of data collection, transcription, glossing and analysis. The findings reported in Part Two throw new light on the debate regarding code-switching vs. borrowing, the application of the Matrix Language Framework (MLF) to the grammar of Welsh-English code-switching, the extralinguistic factors influencing variation in quantity of code-switching, and the extent to which the grammar of Welsh is changing in contact with English. Additional findings by other researchers using the corpus are also reported, and possible future directions are discussed.

Contents:

Introduction

Building the corpus. Data collection and profile of the speakers in our corpus

Transcription of the data

Code-switching vs. borrowing: New implications arising from our data

Using the corpus. The grammar of code-switching

Code-switching and independent variables

Change in Welsh grammar

Additional research using Siarad

Conclusion and future directions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.