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Publication details [#59159]

Kwasi Amuzu, Evershed. 2014. A Comparative Study of Bilingual Verb Phrases in Ewe-English and Gengbe-French Codeswitching. Journal of language contact 7 (2) : 250–287.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | language contact | language use | sentence structure | verb phrase

Language as a subject

English | Ewe | French | Gengbe

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

This study compares verb phrases in Ewe-English codeswitching, spoken in Ghana, and Gengbe-French codeswitching, spoken in Togo. Given the morphosyntactic similarity of the two Gbe varieties, striking morphosyntactic resemblances appear between bilingual clauses comprising English verbs and French verbs.