Cree-English intrasentential code-switching: Testing the morphosyntactic constraints of the Matrix Language Frame model
Abstract This study examines the morphosyntactic constraints on Cree-English intrasentential codeswitching involving mixed nominal expressions to test the Matrix Language Frame (MLF) model. The MLF model is one of the most influential frameworks in the field of contact linguistics used in the study...
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crdegruyter:10.1515/opli-2019-0039 2023-05-15T15:54:16+02:00 Cree-English intrasentential code-switching: Testing the morphosyntactic constraints of the Matrix Language Frame model Al-Bataineh, Hussein Abdelhady, Saleem 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0039 https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/opli/5/1/article-p706.xml https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opli-2019-0039/xml https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opli-2019-0039/html en eng Walter de Gruyter GmbH http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Open Linguistics volume 5, issue 1, page 706-728 ISSN 2300-9969 Linguistics and Language Language and Linguistics journal-article 2019 crdegruyter https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0039 2022-04-14T05:13:29Z Abstract This study examines the morphosyntactic constraints on Cree-English intrasentential codeswitching involving mixed nominal expressions to test the Matrix Language Frame (MLF) model. The MLF model is one of the most influential frameworks in the field of contact linguistics used in the study of grammatical aspects of codeswitching and other contact-induced phenomena. The three principles associated with MLF, viz., the Matrix Language Principle, the Asymmetry Principle and the Uniform Structure Principle, were tested on data consisting of 10 video recordings (constituting of 323 tokens of English nouns in mixed utterances) collected from the speech of a Cree child, aged 04;06 - 06;00. The data is drawn from Pile’s (2018) thesis which is based on the data collected from the Chisasibi Child Language Acquisition Study (CCLAS). The results of the analyses suggest general support for the three principles since, in the entire data set, not a single counter example has been recorded. The Cree-English bilingual data appears asymmetrical in structure, where the Matrix Language, namely Cree, provides morpheme order and outsider late system morphemes, and consequently, is responsible for the well-formedness and morphosyntactic frame of bilingual clauses.. Article in Journal/Newspaper Chisasibi De Gruyter (via Crossref) Chisasibi ENVELOPE(-78.333,-78.333,53.667,53.667) Open Linguistics 5 1 706 728 |
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Abstract This study examines the morphosyntactic constraints on Cree-English intrasentential codeswitching involving mixed nominal expressions to test the Matrix Language Frame (MLF) model. The MLF model is one of the most influential frameworks in the field of contact linguistics used in the study of grammatical aspects of codeswitching and other contact-induced phenomena. The three principles associated with MLF, viz., the Matrix Language Principle, the Asymmetry Principle and the Uniform Structure Principle, were tested on data consisting of 10 video recordings (constituting of 323 tokens of English nouns in mixed utterances) collected from the speech of a Cree child, aged 04;06 - 06;00. The data is drawn from Pile’s (2018) thesis which is based on the data collected from the Chisasibi Child Language Acquisition Study (CCLAS). The results of the analyses suggest general support for the three principles since, in the entire data set, not a single counter example has been recorded. The Cree-English bilingual data appears asymmetrical in structure, where the Matrix Language, namely Cree, provides morpheme order and outsider late system morphemes, and consequently, is responsible for the well-formedness and morphosyntactic frame of bilingual clauses.. |
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Cree-English intrasentential code-switching: Testing the morphosyntactic constraints of the Matrix Language Frame model |
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Cree-English intrasentential code-switching: Testing the morphosyntactic constraints of the Matrix Language Frame model |
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Cree-English intrasentential code-switching: Testing the morphosyntactic constraints of the Matrix Language Frame model |
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Cree-English intrasentential code-switching: Testing the morphosyntactic constraints of the Matrix Language Frame model |
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Cree-English intrasentential code-switching: Testing the morphosyntactic constraints of the Matrix Language Frame model |
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cree-english intrasentential code-switching: testing the morphosyntactic constraints of the matrix language frame model |
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