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Publication details [#32583]
Backus, Ad. 2003. Units in code switching: evidence for multimorphemic elements in the lexicon. Linguistics 41 (1) : 83–132. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
ISBN
0024-3949
Journal WWW
Annotation
The paper identifies several types of multimorphemic lexical unit in bilingual codeswitching data, including inserted plural nouns, compound nouns, adjective–noun and verb–object collocations, and idioms, and provides evidence for their widespread involvement in insertional code switching.