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Direct linkBoumans, Louis – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2006
Moroccan Arabic has two competing syntactic constructions for possessive marking: a synthetic one and an analytic one. The distribution of these constructions is investigated in semi-spontaneous narratives (frog stories) from four Moroccan cities and from the diaspora community in the Netherlands. This distribution is found to depend very much on…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Dominance, Linguistic Borrowing, Dialects
Otheguy, Ricardo – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
In an important theoretical contribution to our understanding of language contact, Toribio elaborates on the familiar generalization, best known from the work of Silva-Corvalan, that contact varieties resemble monolingual lects of the same language in overall grammar, but differ with regard to (a) the selection of structures and (b) the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Semantics, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
Peer reviewedBackus, Ad – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2000
Explores the usefulness of a typology of contact mechanisms for one type of contact setting: that of a typical immigrant language, in this case the variety of Turkish that is spoken in the Netherlands. Examines the relevance of insertional code switching to the genesis of mixed languages--Dutch and Turkish. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Processes, Dutch
