Book contents
- Bilingual Grammar
- Bilingual Grammar
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Motivating a Unified Linguistic System
- 2 Remarks on Separationist Architectures
- 3 Phases, Distributed Morphology, and Some Contributions from Code-Switching
- 4 1Lex in MDM
- 5 Building the Case for 1Lex: Gender in Code-Switching
- 6 1PF in MDM
- 7 Lexical Questions: What Do You Learn When You Learn a Word?
- 8 Psycho-Syntactic Questions: Acquisition, Priming and Co-activation, and a Note on Processing Cost
- 9 Convergent and Divergent Paths
- 10 General Conclusions
- Book part
- Notes
- References
- Index
1 - Introduction: Motivating a Unified Linguistic System
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 May 2020
Book contents
- Bilingual Grammar
- Bilingual Grammar
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Motivating a Unified Linguistic System
- 2 Remarks on Separationist Architectures
- 3 Phases, Distributed Morphology, and Some Contributions from Code-Switching
- 4 1Lex in MDM
- 5 Building the Case for 1Lex: Gender in Code-Switching
- 6 1PF in MDM
- 7 Lexical Questions: What Do You Learn When You Learn a Word?
- 8 Psycho-Syntactic Questions: Acquisition, Priming and Co-activation, and a Note on Processing Cost
- 9 Convergent and Divergent Paths
- 10 General Conclusions
- Book part
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter introduces the separationist approach to bilingualism and shows that its foundations are shaky. More generally, Creole continua argue that thinking of languages as discrete entities is a mistake. Code-switching involves integrating different types of linguistic material and establishing dependencies among them. The chapter also discusses methodological issues and argues that acceptability judgments of deep bilinguals are a good method to obtain data.
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- Bilingual GrammarToward an Integrated Model, pp. 1 - 11Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020