A Milestone Study: Structured Variability as the Key to Unraveling (Contact-Induced) Language Change

Autor/in	Cacoullos, Rena Torres
Titel	A Milestone Study: Structured Variability as the Key to Unraveling (Contact-Induced) Language Change
Quelle	In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 15 (2012) 2, S.233-236 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1366-7289
DOI	10.1017/S1366728911000241
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Linguistic Borrowing; Bilingualism; Code Switching (Language); Grammar; Language Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehnwort; Bilingualismus; Grammatik; Sprachverhalten
Abstract	Despite increasing attention to bilingualism--conferences, publications, grants--linguists are as far as ever from reaching consensus. Is code-switching the alternation between two equally activated languages or is it the insertion of elements from a source language into a recipient language? Can and should we distinguish borrowing and code-switching of single words? Is there grammatical convergence between bilinguals' two languages and does code-switching promote it? Since the first accounts of the structure of code-switching in the 1970s, the same questions have been readdressed with astoundingly little, if any, cumulative advances. Scientific progress has been obstructed by polemic debate, often fueled by elicited judgments, which may display random error (Labov, 1996), or reports of the behavior of stray individuals, which are uninterpretable in the absence of knowledge of the systematic community pattern (Labov, 2006/1966, p. 5). (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10