32.899, Books: OV and VO variation in code-switching: Shim

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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 21:58:38
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: OV and VO variation in code-switching: Shim

 


Title: OV and VO variation in code-switching 
Series Title: Current Issues in Bilingualism  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: http://www.langsci-press.org/catalog/book/299 


Author: Ji Young Shim

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961103027 Pages: 188 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

This monograph is intended as a contribution to the field of bilingualism from
a generative syntax perspective at a variety of levels. It investigates
code-switching between Korean and English and also between Japanese and
English, which exhibit several interesting features. Due to their canonical
word order differences, Korean and Japanese being SOV (Subject-Object-Verb)
and English SVO (Subject-Verb-Object), a code-switched sentence between
Korean/Japanese and English can take, in principle, either OV or VO order, to
which little attention has been paid in the literature. On the contrary, word
order is one of the most extensively discussed topics in generative syntax,
especially in the Principles and Parameter’s approach (P&P) where various
proposals have been made to account of various order patterns of different
languages. By taking the generative view that linguistic variation is due to
variation in the domain of functional categories rather than lexical roots
(e.g. Borer 1984; Chomsky 1995), this monograph investigates word order
variation in Korean-English and Japanese-English code-switching, with
particular attention to the relative placement of the predicate (verb) and its
complement (object) in two contrasting word orders, OV and VO, which was
tested against Korean-English and Japanese-English bilingual speakers’
introspective judgments. The results provide strong evidence indicating that
the distinction between functional and lexical verbs plays a major role in
deriving different word orders (OV and VO, respectively) in Korean-English and
Japanese-English code-switching, which supports the hypothesis that parametric
variation is attributed to differences in the features of a functional
category in the lexicon, as assumed in minimalist syntax. In particular, the
explanation pursued in this monograph is based on feature inheritance, a
syntactic derivational process, which was proposed in recent developments the
Minimalist Program. The monograph shows that by studying diverse and creative
word order patterns of code-switching, we are at a better disposal to
understand how languages are parameterized similarly or differently in a given
domain, which is the very topic that generative linguists have pursued for a
long time.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Japanese (jpn)
                     Korean (kor)


Written In: English  (eng)

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