Cree-English intrasentential code-switching: Testing the morphosyntactic constraints of the Matrix Language Frame model

• Published in: Open Linguistics
• Main Authors: Al-Bataineh, Hussein, Abdelhady, Saleem
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2019
• Subjects: Linguistics and Language; Language and Linguistics; Chisasibi
• Online Access: 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

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...