Government and code-mixing
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Linguistics
- Vol. 22 (1), 1-24
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022226700010537
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to argue that the process of code-mixing is constrained by the government relation that holds between the constituents of a sentence. The government constraint replaces a number of specific constraints that have been proposed in the literature to account for apparently ‘impossible’, ‘ungrammatical’ or ‘non-occurring’ types of intra-sentential switches. Code-mixing is a form of linguistic behaviour which produces utterances consisting of elements taken from the lexicons of different languages. Some examples are given in (1).Keywords
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