Code-switching and the optimal grammar of bilingual language use

• RAKESH M. BHATT ^[2] ; AGNES BOLONYAI ^[1]
  1. [1] North Carolina State University

     North Carolina State University

     Township of Raleigh, Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign
• Localización: Bilingualism: Language and cognition, ISSN 1366-7289, Vol. 14, Nº 4, 2011, págs. 522-546
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this article, we provide a framework of bilingual grammar that offers a theoretical understanding of the socio-cognitive bases of code-switching in terms of five general principles that, individually or through interaction with each other, explain how and why specific instances of code-switching arise. We provide cross-linguistic empirical evidence to claim that these general sociolinguistic principles, stated as socio-cognitive constraints on code-switching, characterize multi-linguistic competence in so far as they are able to show how “local” functions of code-switching arise as specific instantiations of these “global” principles, or (products of) their interactions.