A linguistic analysis of Cypriot Greek-English compound verbs
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DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2018.09.001
Abstract: Abstract Attested in many language contact situations and characterized as a potential “universal of codeswitching” ( Edwards and Gardner-Chloros, 2007 :74), bilingual compound verbs (BCVs) remain perplexing constructions for many scholars. Drawing from a dataset… read more here.
Keywords: greek english; construction; cypriot greek; compound ... See more keywords
Bilingual verbs in three Spanish/English code-switching communities
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DOI: 10.1177/1367006920911449
Abstract: Objectives/research questions: We investigate two understudied bilingual compound verbs that have been attested in Spanish/English code-switching; namely, ‘hacer + VInf’ and ‘estar + VProg’. Specifically, we examined speakers’ intuitions vis-à-vis the acceptability and preferential use… read more here.
Keywords: spanish english; code switching; code; compound verbs ... See more keywords