It is quite commonplace for bilingual speakers to use two or more languages, dialects or
varieties in the same conversation, without any apparent effort. The phenomenon, known as …

Code-switching—the alternating use of two languages in the same stretch of discourse by a
bilingual speaker—is a dominant topic in the study of bilingualism and a phenomenon that …

As globalization has increased awareness of the extent of language contact and linguistic
diversity, questions concerning bilingualism and multilingualism have taken on an …

This article presents an empirical and theoretical critique of the Matrix Language Frame
(MLF) model (Myers-Scotton, 1993; Myers-Scotton and Jake, 2001), and includes a …

Many of the so‐called 'grammars' of code‐switching are based on various underlying
assumptions, eg that informal speech can be adequately or appropriately described in terms …

Language mixing is a ubiquitous phenomenon characterizing bilingual speakers. A frequent
context where two languages are mixed is the word-internal level, demonstrating how tightly …

Grammatical theory is primarily focused on relations below the sentence level, and research
on grammatical aspects of code‐switching has focused almost exclusively on intrasentential …

Code switching and grammatical theory Page 295 Code Switching and Grammatical Theory
283 11 Code Switching and Grammatical Theory JEFF MACSWAN 11.1 Introduction Code …

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art
of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established …

Codeswitching is language mixing; it occurs intrasententially, or within sentences, and
intersentientially, or between sentences. It has been studied in a wide range of language …