Publications

Publication details [#26270]

Myers-Scotton, Carol. 1993. Duelling languages: Grammatical structure in code-switching. Clarendon. xiv + 263 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

intrasentential code-switching | matrix language vs. embedded language | psycholinguistics | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Languages, African

Annotation

This book provides a coherent theoretical framework, the Matrix Language Frame (MLF), to account for structural patterns in especially intrasentential code-switching (CS). Examples rely on data from African languages.

Reviewed by

Eliasson, Stig. 1995. Review of $Duelling languages: Grammatical structure in code-switching.