The present study is an in-depth investigation of the Greek language spoken by immigrants
in Far North Queensland, Australia. The study focuses on contact-induced changes in the …

Attested in many language contact situations and characterized as a potential “universal of
codeswitching”(Edwards and Gardner-Chloros, 2007: 74), bilingual compound verbs (BCVs) …

Code-switching is one of the most interesting topics in bilingualism. Since the structure of
bilingual compound verbs is a type of code-switching, this study is aimed to investigate the …

This chapter analyzes momentary intra-clausal switches or insertions that do not change the
language of the interaction. Code mixing creates hybrid structures in which most of the …

This thesis investigates the word order and adjectival agreement patterns in French-Dutch
code switched DPs. It examines the predictions made by two theoretical frameworks: the …

This thesis explores the phenomenon of language shift and maintenance in the Greek
community of Johannesburg, which is the largest Greek community in South Africa. The …

To sum up, the present study has shown how the interrelation between the cultural and
cognitive aspects of grammatical gender manifests itself in interaction. In the last chapter, I …