Cree-English intrasentential code-switching: Testing the morphosyntactic constraints of the Matrix Language Frame model
| Autor: | Saleem Abdelhady, Hussein Al-Bataineh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language morpheme order principle 05 social sciences Frame (networking) P1-1091 Code-switching matrix language frame model 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Linguistics cree-intrasentential code-switching Matrix (mathematics) system morpheme principle 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology Arithmetic Philology. Linguistics |
| Zdroj: | Open Linguistics, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 706-728 (2019) Open Linguistics, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 322-322 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2300-9969 |
| Popis: | This study examines the morphosyntactic constraints on Cree-English intrasentential codeswitching involving mixed nominal expressions to test the Matrix Language Frame (MLF) model. The MLF model is one of the most influential frameworks in the field of contact linguistics used in the study of grammatical aspects of codeswitching and other contact-induced phenomena. The three principles associated with MLF, viz., the Matrix Language Principle, the Asymmetry Principle and the Uniform Structure Principle, were tested on data consisting of 10 video recordings (constituting of 323 tokens of English nouns in mixed utterances) collected from the speech of a Cree child, aged 04;06 - 06;00. The data is drawn from Pile’s (2018) thesis which is based on the data collected from the Chisasibi Child Language Acquisition Study (CCLAS). The results of the analyses suggest general support for the three principles since, in the entire data set, not a single counter example has been recorded. The Cree-English bilingual data appears asymmetrical in structure, where the Matrix Language, namely Cree, provides morpheme order and outsider late system morphemes, and consequently, is responsible for the well-formedness and morphosyntactic frame of bilingual clauses.. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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