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Linguistic constraints on intrasentential code-switching: a study of Spanish/Hebrew bilingualism

dc.contributor.authorBerk-Seligson, Susan
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-08T18:54:18Z
dc.date.available2010-02-08T18:54:18Z
dc.date.issued1986
dc.identifier.citationBerk-Seligson, Susan. "Linguistic Constraints on Intrasentential Code-Switching: A Study of Spanish/Hebrew Bilingualism." Language in Society 15.3 (1986): 313-48.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0047-4045
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.jstor.org/stable/4167766en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/3832
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, research has increasingly pointed toward the universality of three linguistic constraints on code-switching: (i) an equivalence of structure constraint, (2) a size-of-constituent constraint, and (3) a free morpheme constraint. The evidence derived from this study challenges the universality of the first two of these constraints, and argues instead that their claim to universality is largely a function of the coincidental relative similarity in the syntactic structure of Spanish and English, the two languages upon which most code-switching studies have been based. The present study breaks out of the Spanish-English mold and draws upon data from a language contact situation in which the two languages are syntactically very different from each other, namely, Spanish and Hebrew. The evidence presented also challenges the frequently made assertion that type of code-switching, namely, intra-versus intersentential code-switching, is correlated with degree of bilingualism of the speaker. Finally, the evidence suggests that intrasentential code-switching ability cannot, as some have argued, universally be considered a measure of bilingualism nor a mark of the balanced bilingual. (Code-switching, Spanish, Hebrew, bilingualism, syntactic constraints)en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.subjectCode-switchingen_US
dc.subjectSpanishen_US
dc.subjectHebrewen_US
dc.subjectSyntactic constraintsen_US
dc.subject.lcshSpanish language -- Syntaxen_US
dc.subject.lcshBilingualismen_US
dc.titleLinguistic constraints on intrasentential code-switching: a study of Spanish/Hebrew bilingualismen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.description.collegeCollege of Arts & Scienceen_US
dc.description.departmentDepartment of Spanish and Portugueseen_US


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