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Master Thesis Year : 1991

The syntactic patterns of code-switching in Ekegusii-English

Abstract

This research was carried out to identify the syntactic patterns of code-switching in Ekegusii <=> English and any syntactic constraint on the code-switch that there may be. What is meant by constraint here is that two elements in a sentence cannot collocate if they are in two different codes because the construction would be ungrammatical. Data (code-switch utterances) was collected from a total of 43 (forty three) Ekegusli <=> English speakers and it was supplemented by the researcher's intuitive code-switch constructions. The results revealed that there exist certain syntactic constraints on code-switching. The findings were grouped into two, that is, code-switch patterns and code-switch constraints. These were further grouped according to the sequence of the codes, i.e Ekegusii => English and English => Ekegusii. In the Ekegusii => English sequence, a total of 21 (twenty one) patterns were identified while the constraints numbered 16 (sixteen). English-Ekegusil had 20 (twenty) patterns with 10 (ten) constraint structures. The Ekegusil <=> English constraints were compared with those of other code-switches. Ekegusih <=> English had seven constraints in common with Spanish-English,three with Russian-French, one with Yoruba-English and five out of the seven claimed to be universal with a few exceptions in some of the constraints.
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dumas-01329630 , version 1 (09-06-2016)

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Teresa Bitutu. The syntactic patterns of code-switching in Ekegusii-English. Linguistics. 1991. ⟨dumas-01329630⟩

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