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Publication details [#52428]

Myers-Scotton, Carol. 2008. Language Contact: Why Outsider System Morphemes Resist Transfer. Journal of language contact thema II : 21–41.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | language contact | language transfer | morpheme

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

This paper argues that the "outsider" system morpheme type which stems from only one of the languages partaking in codeswitching also withstands transfer or copy across languages in other contact phenomena.