Sometimes I'll start a sentence in Spanish y termino en espanol

POPLACK, S. (1980). Sometimes I'll start a sentence in Spanish y termino en espanol: toward a typology of code-switching. Linguistics, 18(7-8), 7-8.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1980

Volume

18

Issue

7-8

Pages

7-8

DOI

10.1515/ling.1980.18.7-8.581

DOI registrant

De Gruyter

Link

https://doi.org/10.1515/ling.1980.18.7-8.581

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linguistics_semiotics

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• Code-Switching
  • (4) operating rule-governed, not haphazard — code-switching has morpho-syntactic constraints on where switches can occur and sociolinguistic constraints on who switches with whom and when.

    This sourceEstablishes the equivalence constraint and free-morpheme constraint from a Puerto Rican Spanish-English corpus, showing code-switching is rule-governed and occurs where both grammars align.

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    Poplack argues code-switching is rule-governed, proposes syntactic constraints on switch points, and shows switch type and rate depend on interlocutor group and speaker ability.

    “most in- vestigators now appear to agree that in many aspects it is rule-governed”

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