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MESSAGE 9
From: Jeff MacSwan, macswan@asu.edu
Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 00:38:55 -0700
Subject: [Dissertation on code-switching on-line]
Hi. For those interested in grammatical aspects of code switching, I'd
like to make known that my dissertation, completed in September 1997, is
available for download on the web at
http://128.97.8.34/macswan/diss.html
The work will be published next year in by Garland Press as _A
Minimalist Approach to Intrasentential Code Switching_.
My thesis explores some consequences of minimalist grammars for the data
of code switching (or language mixture) using an original corpus of
Spanish-Nahuatl data I collected in Mexico. In the model I develop,
items may be drawn from the lexicon of either language to introduce
features into the numeration which must be checked for convergence in
just the same way as monolingual features must be checked (or must not
"mismatch"); no special mechanisms are permitted (§5.1).
I also conclude that code switching is impossible in the computation N
->PF (my PF Disjunction Theorem), since the rule ordering associated
with the phonological component is not preserved under union (code
switching); this conclusion is sustained empirically (§5.2.2.3-5.2.2.6,
5.3.1.7).
Chapters 1 and 6 discuss applied issues in bilingualism, touching on
assessment, tracking of minority-language students, and notions of
'bilingual competence.' Chapter 2 is the literature review which spans
numerous topics,including some critical discussion of other approaches
to code switching. Chapter 3 details the research design,and chapter 4
is an annotated (descriptive) catalogue of my findings. Chapter 5 is the
core chapter where the approach is outlined and the data is analyzed;
here I present my framework, give counter-examples from my data to other
approaches to code switching, and analyze my data and data from other
code-switching corpora in terms of the framework developed.
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