Structural patterns and strategies of codeswitching in Igbo-English bilingual discourse

This study identifies and describes the patterns found in Igbo-English codeswitching using a typology of codeswitching proposed in the literature. Two patterns in the three-way typology are identified. In the alternational pattern neither language dominates the other, whilst the insertional pattern...

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Autor principal:	Ihuọma I. Akinremi
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Lenguaje:	EN FR
Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 2016
Materias:	codeswitching discourse analysis Igbo morphosyntax Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:78e42cebca2d41439d0e7fa8bee8807b2021-11-19T03:52:11ZStructural patterns and strategies of codeswitching in Igbo-English bilingual discourse10.32473/sal.v45i1.1072570039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/78e42cebca2d41439d0e7fa8bee8807b2016-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107257https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XThis study identifies and describes the patterns found in Igbo-English codeswitching using a typology of codeswitching proposed in the literature. Two patterns in the three-way typology are identified. In the alternational pattern neither language dominates the other, whilst the insertional pattern involves asymmetry in the roles of the two languages, with Igbo as the matrix language that provides the morphosyntactic structure of the bilingual clause. Certain structural features of the Igbo morphosyntactic frame are identified as evidence of a matrix-embedded language asymmetry. In particular, it is demonstrated that the feature of morphosyntactic integration serves as the diagnostic for identifying the type of codeswitching within a clause and that it effectively distinguishes alternation and insertion, especially in peripheral switching. In the insertional pattern, the Igbo grammatical frame forces morphological integration of inserted English verbs but in the alternational pattern, verbs remain monolingual in the participating languages. The paper concludes that although the two patterns are attested in the Igbo-English language pair, the insertional pattern is dominant.Ihuọma I. AkinremiLibraryPress@UFarticlecodeswitchingdiscourse analysisIgbomorphosyntaxPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 45, Iss 1 (2016)
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topic	codeswitching discourse analysis Igbo morphosyntax Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	codeswitching discourse analysis Igbo morphosyntax Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Ihuọma I. Akinremi Structural patterns and strategies of codeswitching in Igbo-English bilingual discourse
description	This study identifies and describes the patterns found in Igbo-English codeswitching using a typology of codeswitching proposed in the literature. Two patterns in the three-way typology are identified. In the alternational pattern neither language dominates the other, whilst the insertional pattern involves asymmetry in the roles of the two languages, with Igbo as the matrix language that provides the morphosyntactic structure of the bilingual clause. Certain structural features of the Igbo morphosyntactic frame are identified as evidence of a matrix-embedded language asymmetry. In particular, it is demonstrated that the feature of morphosyntactic integration serves as the diagnostic for identifying the type of codeswitching within a clause and that it effectively distinguishes alternation and insertion, especially in peripheral switching. In the insertional pattern, the Igbo grammatical frame forces morphological integration of inserted English verbs but in the alternational pattern, verbs remain monolingual in the participating languages. The paper concludes that although the two patterns are attested in the Igbo-English language pair, the insertional pattern is dominant.
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title	Structural patterns and strategies of codeswitching in Igbo-English bilingual discourse
title_short	Structural patterns and strategies of codeswitching in Igbo-English bilingual discourse
title_full	Structural patterns and strategies of codeswitching in Igbo-English bilingual discourse
title_fullStr	Structural patterns and strategies of codeswitching in Igbo-English bilingual discourse
title_full_unstemmed	Structural patterns and strategies of codeswitching in Igbo-English bilingual discourse
title_sort	structural patterns and strategies of codeswitching in igbo-english bilingual discourse
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publishDate	2016
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Structural patterns and strategies of codeswitching in Igbo-English bilingual discourse

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