32.3735, Books: Explaining Russian-German code-mixing: Hakimov

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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:20:45
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Explaining Russian-German code-mixing: Hakimov

 


Title: Explaining Russian-German code-mixing 
Subtitle: A usage-based approach 
Series Title: Contact and Multilingualism  

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

Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/289 


Author: Nikolay Hakimov

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961103300 Pages: 304 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

The study of grammatical variation in language mixing has been at the core of
research into bilingual language practices. Although various motivations have
been proposed in the literature to account for possible mixing patterns, some
of them are either controversial, or remain untested. Little is still known
about whether and how frequency of use of linguistic elements can contribute
to the patterning of bilingual talk. This book is the first to systematically
explore the factor usage frequency in a corpus of bilingual speech. The two
aims are (i) to describe and analyze the variation in mixing patterns in the
speech of Russia German adolescents and young adults in Germany, and (ii) to
propose and test usage-based explanations of variation in mixing patterns in
three morphosyntactic contexts: the adjective-modified noun phrase, the
prepositional phrase, and the plural marking of German noun insertions in
bilingual sentences. In these contexts, German noun insertions combine with
either Russian or German words and grammatical markers, thus yielding mixed
bilingual and German monolingual constituents in otherwise Russian sentences,
the latter also labelled as embedded-language islands. The results suggest
that the frequency with which words are used together mediates the
distribution of mixing patterns in each of the examined contexts. The
differing impacts of co-occurrence frequency are attributed to the
distributional and semantic specifics of the analyzed morphosyntactic
configurations. Lexical frequency has been found to be another important
determinant in this variation. Other factors include recency, or lexical
priming, in discourse in the case of prepositional phrases, and phonological
and structural similarities and differences in the inflectional systems of the
contact languages in the case of plural marking.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): German (deu)
                     Russian (rus)


Written In: English  (eng)

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