Overview
- Examines different types of code switching, including insertional, alternational and fusional code-switching
- Presents a critical review of different approaches to code switching in the light of a corpus of Moroccan Arabic
- Introduces the 'FPC hypothesis', which proposes that selectional properties of functional categories can constrain code-switching options
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book posits a universal syntactic constraint (FPC) for code switching, using as its basis a study of different types of code-switching between French, Moroccan Arabic and Standard Arabic in a language contact situation. After presenting the theoretical background and linguistic context under study, the author closely examines examples of syntactic constraints in the language of functional bilinguals switching between French and forms of Arabic, proposing that this hypothesis can also be applied in other comparable language contact and translanguaging contexts worldwide. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of French, Arabic, theoretical linguistics, syntax and bilingualism.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Mustapha Aabi is an Associate Professor at Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco. His research interests lie in the area of cross-linguistic studies and education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Syntax of Arabic and French Code Switching in Morocco
Authors: Mustapha Aabi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24850-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24849-9Published: 06 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24852-9Published: 06 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24850-5Published: 28 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 262
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Syntax, Multilingualism, Comparative Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics