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Stammers, Jonathan R.; Deuchar, Margaret – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
According to the nonce borrowing hypothesis (NBH), "[n]once borrowings pattern exactly like their native counterparts in the (unmixed) recipient language" (Poplack & Meechan, 1998a, p. 137). Nonce borrowings (Sankoff, Poplack & Vanniarajan, 1990, p. 74) are "lone other-language items" which differ from established borrowings in terms of frequency…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Verbs, Linguistic Theory, Classification
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Herring, Jon Russell; Deuchar, Margaret; Couto, M. Carmen Parafita; Quintanilla, Monica Moro – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
Previous work on intrasentential codeswitching has noted that switches between determiners and their noun complements are frequent in both Spanish-English and Welsh-English data. Two major recent theories of codeswitching, the Matrix Language Frame model and a Minimalist Program approach, make potentially competing predictions regarding the source…
Descriptors: Nouns, Prediction, Code Switching (Language), Spanish