Carol Myers-Scotton
List of John Benjamins publications for which Carol Myers-Scotton plays a role.
2009 9. Which language? Participation potentials across lexical categories in code-switching Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code Switching, Isurin, Ludmila, Donald Winford and Kees de Bot (eds.), pp. 207–242 | Article
2007 The grammatical profile of L1 speakers on the stairs of potential language shift Language Attrition: Theoretical perspectives, Köpke, Barbara, Monika S. Schmid, Merel Keijzer and Susan Dostert (eds.), pp. 69–82 | Article
This chapter tests the hypothesis that a shift from an L1 to a community-dominant language as speakers’ main public language is abrupt, not gradual (i.e., from one grammatical system to another, without implying L1 grammatical attrition). When the situation biased urban Xhosa-English bilinguals in… read more
1997 ‘Matrix language recognition’ and ‘morphene sorting’ as possible structural
strategies in pidgin/creole formation The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics, Spears, Arthur K. and Donald Winford (eds.), pp. 151–174 | Article
1996 Arabic and Constraints on Codeswitching Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Eid, Mushira and Dilworth B. Parkinson (eds.), pp. 9–44 | Article
1993 Building the frame in codeswitching: evidence from Africa Topics in African Linguistics: Papers from the XXI Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Georgia, April 1990, Mufwene, Salikoko S. and Lioba Moshi (eds.), pp. 253–278 | Article
1992 Codeswitching as socially motivated performance meets structurally motivated constraints Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution: Studies in honour of René Dirven on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Pütz, Martin (ed.), pp. 417–428 | Article
1991 Making Ethnicity Salient in Codeswitching Focus on Language and Ethnicity: Essays in honor of Joshua A. Fishman, Dow, James R. (ed.), pp. 95–110 | Article
1979 9. The context is the message: morphological, syntactic and semantic reduction and deletion in Nairobi and Kampala varieties of Swahili Readings in Creole Studies, Hancock, Ian F. (ed.), pp. 111–127 | Chapter