Bilinguals in the presence of other bilinguals engage in codeswitching, the fluid and
intentional alternation between languages during bilingual speech or text. Codeswitching …

Prominent sociolinguistic theories of language mixing have posited that single-word
insertions of one language into the other are the result of a distinct process than multi-word …

Drawing on naturally-occurring bilingual speech from a well-defined codeswitching
community in Southern Arizona, this study examined the influence of semantic gender (aka …

Introduction This paper studies the pragmatic force that heritage speakers may convey
through the use of the diminutive in everyday speech. In particular, I analyze the use of the …

The Nakh languages Chechen and Tsova-Tush each have a five-valued gender system:
masculine, feminine, and three" neuter" genders named for their singular agreement forms …

The contact between Basque and Spanish in the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC)
gives rise to certain linguistic features in BAC Spanish such as non-standard gender …

Codeswitching is a language-contact phenomenon which is characterized by the
simultaneous use of the two languages of the bilingual and which has been used as a tool to …

This dissertation is about the category of gender in bilingual grammars. The specific focus is
on the interplay between the linguistic properties that correlate with gender assignment in …

This paper investigates how codeswitching (CS) functions for Spanish-English bilingual
speakers in utterances that feature noun phrase (NP) ellipsis and one-substitution, with …