Government and codeswitching : explaining American Finnish / / Helena Halmari
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| Autore: |
Halmari Helena
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| Titolo: |
Government and codeswitching : explaining American Finnish / / Helena Halmari
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 1997 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.4/4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Code switching (Linguistics) |
| Government (Grammar) | |
| Finnish language - United States | |
| English language - United States | |
| Finnish Americans - Language | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-260) and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | GOVERNMENT AND CODESWITCHING; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; Abbreviations and Symbols; Chapter 1. Searching for Answers; Chapter 2. Defining Codeswitching: Methodological Problems; Chapter 3. Introducing the Subjects and the Data; Chapter 4. What Constrains Intrasentential Codeswitching: Different Proposals; Chapter 5. Finnish-English Codeswitching: Towards a Structural Explanation; Chapter 6. Testing the Limits of the Government Constraint; Chapter 7. Codeswitching or Borrowing? |
| Chapter 8. Towards a Generalizable Structural Constraint: Evidence from Other LanguagesChapter 9. Concluding Remarks; Appendix: Introducing the Subjects and Their Switching Patterns; Notes; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Bilingual codeswitching is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon, which calls for explanations on several different linguistic levels. This volume focuses on one such level: the level of syntax. An explanation for the regularities and consistencies in the codeswitching patterns of American Finns in their spontaneous conversations is sought for in the Universal Grammar -based principle of government as realized in case-assignment and agreement relations. A bulk of the Finnish-English intrasentential data get their explanation on the structural, hierarchical level, but this level of syntax is found |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Government and codeswitching |
| ISBN: | 1-283-22212-4 |
| 9786613222121 | |
| 90-272-8275-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910972270803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in bilingualism ; ; v. 12.