Publications

Publication details [#42937]

Owens, Jonathan. 2005. Hierarchicalized matrices: codeswitching among urban Nigerian Arabs. Linguistics 43 (5) : 957–993.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | code-switching | hierarchy | minority language

Language as a subject

Arabic, Nigerian | Arabic, Standard | English | Hausa

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This paper deals with hierarchicalized matrices and codeswitching among urban Nigerian Arabs, who are typically bilingual in Nigerian Arabic and Hausa, using additionally English and Standard Arabic.