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Publication details [#35794]

Gysels, Marjolein. 1992. French in urban Lubumbashi Swahili: Codeswitching, borrowing, or both? Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 13 (1/2) : 41–55.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

borrowing | code-switching | function | language contact | urban community

Language as a subject

French | Swahili

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper examines the motivation and the mechanisms for integration of French elements in Lubumbashi Swahili. The insertions appear to generate two distinct mixed variants with different linguistic and social functions.