Publications

Publication details [#12555]

Backus, Ad. 1999. The intergenerational codeswitching continuum in an immigrant community. In Extra, Guus and Ludo Verhoeven. Bilingualism and Migration. (Studies on Language Acquisition 14). De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 261–279.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | discourse marker | immigrant | matrix language vs. embedded language | saliency

Language as a subject

Dutch | Turkish

Annotation

Based on shifts in code-switching strategies, the author distinguishes three lects, the speakers of which belong to three generations of Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands.