This book provides an in depth analysis of the different ways in
which bilingual speakers switch from one language to another in the
course of conversation. This phenomenon, known as code-mixing or
code-switching, takes many forms. Pieter Muysken adopts a
comparative approach to distinguish between the different types of
code-mixing, drawing on a wealth of data from bilingual settings
throughout the world. His study identifies three fundamental and
distinct patterns of mixing - 'insertion', 'alternation' and
'congruent lexicalization' - and sets out to discover whether the
choice of a particular mixing strategy depends on the contrasting
grammatical properties of the languages involved, the degree of
bilingual competence of the speaker or various social factors. The
book synthesizes a vast array of recent research in a rapidly
growing field of study which has much to reveal about the structure
and function of language.
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