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Publication details [#39692]

Bokamba, Eyamba G. 1988. Code-mixing, language variation, and linguistic theory: Evidence from Bantu languages. Lingua 76 (1) : 21–62.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-mixing | language variation | urban community

Language as a subject

English | French | Lingala | Swahili

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper presents an analysis of code-mixing in Lingala and Swahili, which interact, respectively, with French and English to constitute urban varieties of the former languages.