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Malik, Nazir Ahmed. 2017. No mixed grammars, no phonological disjunction: A new perspective on intra-sentential code-switching.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | intrasentential code-switching | language proficiency

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Annotation

This inquiry challenges MacSwan, 2000, MacSwan, 2005, MacSwan, 2010 Minimalist model of intra-sentential CS on theoretical grounds. It claims that his conception of CS as a ‘union’ of, at least, two lexically-encoded grammars (Gs) constrained by the requirements of ‘mixed Gs’ is a Minimalist version of the Equivalence Constraint.