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Peer reviewedArroyo, Jose Luis Blas; Tricker, Deborah – Language Variation and Change, 2000
Using the variationist comparative method, the status of ambiguous lone Spanish-origin nouns in Catalan discourse is determined by analyzing their distribution and conditioning and by comparing them to their counterparts in unmixed Spanish or in multiple-word code switches. Suggests that the grammar of these nouns is Catalan, and their categorical…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Code Switching (Language), Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
