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Record Nr.

UNINA9910373939203321

Autore

Keller Mareike L

Titolo

Code-Switching [[electronic resource] ] : Unifying Contemporary and Historical Perspectives / / by Mareike L. Keller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-34667-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (102 pages)

Collana

New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Historical linguistics

Linguistic change

Syntax

Literature, Medieval

Bilingualism

Historical Linguistics

Language Change

Medieval Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Understanding the Grammar of Mixed Language -- Chapter 3: Early English Code-Switching -- Chapter 4: Code-Switching Across Time and Space.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book offers a path-breaking and meticulously detailed analysis of historical code-switching in written-origin and spoken-origin formats. Particularly effective is the recourse to original manuscripts to resolve issues of textual interpretation. Researchers in the historical linguistics field will appreciate its authoritative presentation of code-switching frameworks and how they shed light on multilingualism in earlier times." -- Richard Ingham, University of Westminster, UK "This well-written book is essential reading for anyone interested in historical and modern code-switching, but also for historical linguists and medievalists in general, combining linguistic theory and philological analysis. The author convincingly argues that the Matrix Language Frame model, developed for modern code-switching, is fully applicable



to the analysis of earlier multilingual data and that the general principles of code-switching have remained stable over the centuries." -- Herbert Schendl, University of Vienna, Austria This book systematically discusses the link between bilingual language production and its manifestation in historical documents, drawing together two branches of linguistics which have much in common but are traditionally dealt with separately. By combining the study of historical mixed texts with the principles of modern code-switching and bilingualism research, the author argues that the cognitive processes underpinning the human capacity to produce mixed utterances have remained unchanged throughout history, even as the languages themselves are constantly changing. This book will be of interest to scholars of historical linguistics, syntactic theory (particularly generative grammar), language variation and change. Mareike L. Keller is Junior Lecturer at Mannheim University, Germany. Her research focuses on historical bilingualism and code-switching patterns. .