Chapter 7
Contact phenomena
The I-language of a bilingual
Against the common-sense notion that bilinguals have two grammatical systems I argue that the linguistic system of a bilingual should be integrated, following ideas developed in more detail in López (2020). In particular, I argue that both the lexicon and the post-syntactic operations that lead to the externalization systems are integrated. I further argue that the distinction between code-switching and borrowing is spurious and I extend the integrated hypothesis to syntactic transfer. I use Distributed Morphology to formally describe how an integrated system may work.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Separationism and architecture
- 3.Distributed morphology
- 4.Only one lexicon
- 5.Only one PF
- 6.Code-switching and borrowing
- 7.Syntactic transfer
- 8.Conclusions
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