Government and code-mixing

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to argue that the process of code-mixing is constrained by the government relation that holds between the constituents of a sentence. The government constraint replaces a number of specific constraints that have been proposed in the literature to account for apparently ‘impossible’, ‘ungrammatical’ or ‘non-occurring’ types of intra-sentential switches. Code-mixing is a form of linguistic behaviour which produces utterances consisting of elements taken from the lexicons of different languages. Some examples are given in (1).

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Anne-Marie Di Sciullo, Pieter C. Muysken, Rajendra Singh (1986). Government and code-mixing. Journal of Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022226700010537

@article{di1986government,
  title  = {Government and code-mixing},
  author = {Sciullo, Anne-Marie Di and Muysken, Pieter C. and Singh, Rajendra},
  year   = {1986},
  journal = {Journal of Linguistics},
  doi    = {10.1017/s0022226700010537}
}

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