Publications
Publication details [#11828]
Cochran, Effie Papatzikou. 1997. An Instance of Triglossia? Codeswitching as Evidence for the Present State of Greece's "Language Question". International Journal of the Sociology of Language 126 : 33–62. 30 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
ISBN
0165-2516
Journal WWW
Annotation
Greece's monoglossic versus diglossic variation is addressed by analyzing dialectal code-switching. It is shown that present-day speakers use a single based language, in which code-switches are inserted, termed Common Modern Greek.