This paper examines embedded language elements in an Acholi/English codeswitching corpus. Three overall arguments are supported: the main motivation for employing embedded language material, is that it better expresses the semantics and pragmatics of the speaker's intentions than approximate Matrix Language counterparts; in order to access the preferred embedded language material, speakers sometimes use compromise strategies; and even when embedded language content morphemes dominate the clause, the basic morphosyntactic material still comes from the Matrix Language.