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Contact Linguistics: Bilingual Encounters and Grammatical Outcomes

Carol Myers-Scotton - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 372 pages
'Contact linguistics' provides an account of contact outcome theories, including the author's own. It has coursebook potential for advanced undergraduates and graduates.
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Social Motivations for Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa

Carol Myers-Scotton - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 196 pages
This book deals with codeswitching, the use of two or more different languages in the same conversation. The author advances a theoretical argument which aims at a general ...
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Duelling Languages: Grammatical Structure in Codeswitching

Carol Myers-Scotton - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 306 pages
As much a study in grammatical theory as of language in use, the aim of this book is to describe and explain intrasential codeswitching - the production of two or more ...
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Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties

Carol Myers-Scotton - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 232 pages
Carol Myers-Scotton has edited a collection of essays that covers the choice of one style of English over another in everything from Bible translations to "surprise in poetry ...
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The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism

François Grosjean, Ping Li - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2012 - 256 pages
The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism presents a comprehensive introduction to the foundations of bilingualism, covering language processing, language acquisition, cognition ...
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Code-switching

Penelope Gardner-Chloros - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2009 - 255 pages
An interdisciplinary overview of code-switching, whereby bilingual speakers switch between different languages or language varieties.
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The Handbook of Bilingualism

Tej K. Bhatia, William C. Ritchie - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 910 pages
This handbook provides state-of-the-art treatments of the central issues that arise from the study of the phenomena of bilingualism. It explores topics ranging from the ...
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