8. Two Linguistic Systems in Contact: Grammar, Phonology, and Lexicon
- Tej K. Bhatia,
- William C. Ritchie
Published Online: 3 OCT 2012
DOI: 10.1002/9781118332382.ch8
Copyright © 2013 Blackwell Publishing, Ltd
Book Title
The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism, Second Edition
Additional Information
How to Cite
Muysken, P. (2012) Two Linguistic Systems in Contact: Grammar, Phonology, and Lexicon, in The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism, Second Edition (eds T. K. Bhatia and W. C. Ritchie), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781118332382.ch8
Editor Information
Syracuse University, USA
Publication History
- Published Online: 3 OCT 2012
- Published Print: 7 NOV 2012
Book Series:
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781444334906
Online ISBN: 9781118332382
- Summary
- Chapter
- References
Keywords:
- code-switching;
- grammatical interference;
- language contact research;
- lexicon;
- morpho-syntax;
- phonology
Summary
This chapter outlines some of the recent findings in the domain of language contact, focusing on three sub-domains of the language system: morpho-syntax; phonology; and lexicon. The study of phonology in language contact remains underrepresented, not just at the empirical, but certainly also at the conceptual level. The chapter first discusses the sub-domains of morpho-syntax, followed by phonology and lexicon together. The attention then turns to language contact research methodology. At present the fields of code-switching and morpho-syntactic interference are organized as separate domains of inquiry. The difference between them is simple: in the case of code-switching or code-mixing, lexical material from two languages is present in the clause, as well as morpho-syntactic structure from both languages. Interference involves morpho-syntactic structure from two languages, but lexical material from only one of them.