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Publication details [#60426]

Merchant, Jason. 2015. On ineffable predicates: Bilingual Greek–English code-switching under ellipsis. Lingua 166 (B) : 199–213.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | code-switching | ellipsis

Language as a subject

English | Greek

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper shows that bilingual Greek-English code-switching is possible in ellipsis sites. An ellipsis can take an antecedent in a language diverging from that of its direct surroundings. Code-switching ellipses need a syntactic element to elliptical identity.