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Government and code-mixing1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Anne-Marie Di Sciullo,
Pieter Muysken and
Rajendra Singh
Anne-Marie Di Sciullo
Affiliation:
Université du Québec à Montréal, Universiteit van Amsterdam and Université de Montréal
Pieter Muysken
Affiliation:
Université du Québec à Montréal, Universiteit van Amsterdam and Université de Montréal
Rajendra Singh
Affiliation:
Université du Québec à Montréal, Universiteit van Amsterdam and Université de Montréal
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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).

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , March 1986, pp. 1 - 24
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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