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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 12: Selected papers from the 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Campinas, Brazil
Edited by Ruth E.V. Lopes, Juanito Ornelas de Avelar and Sonia M. L. Cyrino
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Chapter 14
Structural approaches to code-switching

Research then and now

| The University of Texas

The present contribution reflects on the competing disciplinary, ideological, and methodological tensions in the study of bilingual code-switching and advocates for a data-driven structural approach to the patterns of language mixing attested across language pairings and Speech communities. More specifically, the chapter argues for the benefits of corpus and computational techniques in yielding reliable and replicable findings with which to confront long-standing questions and established theoretical constructs and in advancing our understanding of this bilingual phenomenon.

Keywords: code-switching, syntax, corpus, computational linguistics
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.A recent history of structural approaches to code-switching
  • 3.A first step towards a data-driven research program
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 19 October 2017
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