A Minimalist Approach to Intrasentential Code Switching
, by MacSwan,JeffNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780815332749 | 0815332742
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 1/1/1999
Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
Preface | p. xxiii |
Rationale | p. 3 |
Schooling, Propaganda, and Social Class | p. 5 |
Prescriptivism and the Status of Languages | p. 7 |
Code Switching and the Ideology of "Cognitive Deficits" | p. 10 |
"Semilingualism" and Linguistic Competence | p. 10 |
The Threshold Hypothesis and Language Proficiency | p. 15 |
The Ann Arbor Decision, Code Switching, and Language Education | p. 19 |
Bilingualism and Placement in Special Education | p. 20 |
Conclusions | p. 21 |
Literature Review | p. 29 |
What is Bilingual Proficiency? | p. 29 |
Some Definitions | p. 30 |
Critical Period Effects and Language Proficiency | p. 31 |
Identifying Proficient Bilinguals | p. 36 |
Code Switching | p. 37 |
Social Aspects of Code Switching | p. 37 |
Grammatical Aspects of Code Switching | p. 40 |
Poplack's (1980, 1981) approach | p. 40 |
Joshi's (1985) approach | p. 42 |
Di Sciullo, Muysken and Singh's (1986) approach | p. 43 |
Mahootian's (1993) approach | p. 44 |
Belazi, Rubin and Tor ibio's (1994) approach | p. 48 |
Speech-planning approaches | p. 50 |
Summary of basic findings in code switching corpora | p. 52 |
Language Contact Phenomena | p. 55 |
Borrowings and Calques | p. 55 |
Creoles and Pidgins | p. 59 |
The Theory of Syntax | p. 62 |
Some Advantages of Formalism in the Study of Grammar | p. 62 |
Generative Grammar Before the Minimalist Program | p. 64 |
The Minimalist Program | p. 66 |
Nahuatl and Spanish | p. 70 |
Genetic and Typological Relationships | p. 70 |
The Spanish Language | p. 73 |
The Nahuatl Language | p. 73 |
Varieties of Nahuatl | p. 77 |
Nahuatl Courses and Linguistic Studies | p. 80 |
Nahuatl Orthography | p. 81 |
Spanish and Nahuatl in Central Mexico | p. 82 |
The Aztecs and Hernan Cortes | p. 82 |
Spanish and Nahuatl in Contemporary Mexico | p. 86 |
Research Design | p. 97 |
Research Questions | p. 97 |
Consultants | p. 98 |
Selection Criteria for Target Language Population | p. 98 |
Description of Consultants | p. 98 |
Data Collection Procedures | p. 101 |
Naturalistic Observations | p. 101 |
Sentence Judgment Tasks | p. 103 |
Conventions and Abbreviations Used for Presentation of Data | p. 104 |
How the Research Questions Will be Addressed | p. 106 |
Spanish-Nahuatl Code Switching: Basic Findings | p. 109 |
Data Obtained Through Elicited Judgments | p. 109 |
Conjunctions and because | p. 110 |
That-Complement | p. 111 |
Other Embedded Clauses | p. 113 |
Negation | p. 118 |
Quantifiers and Nonreferential Quantified NPs | p. 120 |
Demonstratives | p. 124 |
Determiners | p. 125 |
Nahuatl in and Spanish Nouns | p. 126 |
Modification Structures | p. 127 |
Switches Involving Subject and Object Pronouns | p. 128 |
Switches Involving Clitics | p. 131 |
Switches Involving a Bound Morpheme | p. 132 |
Other Findings | p. 134 |
Data Obtained in the Naturalistic Observation | p. 135 |
Intersentential Switches | p. 135 |
Conjunctions | p. 135 |
Modification Structures | p. 136 |
Nouns | p. 137 |
Verbs | p. 139 |
Prepositions | p. 139 |
C-Elements | p. 140 |
D-Elements | p. 141 |
Negation | p. 141 |
Word-Internal Instances of Code Switching | p. 141 |
Adverbs | p. 142 |
Interjections | p. 142 |
Inventory of Spanish Borrowings in the Naturalistic Data | p. 143 |
A Minimalist Approach to Code Switching | p. 145 |
Code Switching on Minimalist Assumptions | p. 145 |
The Spanish-Nahuatl Corpus | p. 151 |
The Spanish-Nahuatl Corpus on Other Theories | p. 151 |
An Analysis of the Data | p. 156 |
Pronouns and Agreement Morphemes | p. 156 |
Clitics and Agreement Morphemes | p. 171 |
Embedded Clauses | p. 179 |
Duratives | p. 190 |
Negatives | p. 196 |
Gender Features in DPs and Modification Structures | p. 199 |
Preliminary Conclusions | p. 206 |
Other Corpora and Some Prospects for Further Research | p. 207 |
Conjunctions and that (Table 1, (1)-(2)) | p. 208 |
Embedded Verbs (Table 1, (3a)-(3d)) | p. 211 |
Negation (Table 1, (3e)) | p. 215 |
D-Matter (Table 1, (4)) | p. 216 |
Modification Structures (Table 1, (5)) | p. 217 |
Pronouns and Clitics (Table 1, (6)) | p. 219 |
Morphological Switches (Table 1, (7)) | p. 221 |
Code Switching and Basic Word Orders | p. 225 |
Some General Conclusions | p. 230 |
Some Implications for Educational Research and Practice | p. 247 |
Policy: Tacit Tracking and Code Switching | p. 248 |
Curriculum | p. 252 |
Revising the Threshold Hypothesis | p. 252 |
Language Arts and Linguistic Inquiry | p. 255 |
Teaching: Bilingual Instruction and Code Switching | p. 257 |
Bilingualism and Assessment | p. 261 |
Bilingualism, Cognition and Mental Architecture | p. 265 |
Bibliography | p. 271 |
Index | p. 297 |
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