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An OT Approach to the Morphosyntactic Features of Chinese/English Codeswitching

Author: QingSong
Tutor: LiuChengYu
School: Southwestern University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Chinese and English code-switching Lexical syntactic features OT Analysis
CLC: H314
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2006
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Abstract

Code-switching field of study, scholars have generally agreed that the word code-switching can not be simply understood as the speaker on a whim to make, not just as a language communities habit. In other words, code-switching syntactically restricted scholars exactly what syntax restrictions inconclusive. This article has two objectives: (1) provide adequate vocabulary syntactic features Chinese and English code-switching; (2) within the framework of Optimality Theory to explain the syntactic features of these terms. Code-switching more than the sentence level there is no interaction between the language system, the paper mainly studies the Chinese-English sentence code-switching. In addition, the code-switching phenomenon is very complex, such as social factors, psychological factors, but also by the constraints of syntax restrictions, so in order to minimize interference from other factors, the paper mainly focuses on the impossible or less likely to occur Chinese-English sentence language code conversion, to find out the vocabulary syntactic constraints. Before discussing these centers, the paper distinguishes between related terms and code-switching in Chapter focuses on code-switching and code-mixing, code-switching with the pretext of the concept of difference. Code-switching and code-mixing, In this paper, the former will be used to include code-switching between the sentence and the sentence. While code-switching with loanwords agree on the one hand Poplack's point of view, they are differentiated by word belongs to the language (or language skills), code-switching is a speech (or verbal behavior); accept assimilation standard. On the other hand, we also accept the point of view of the Myers-Scotton loanwords area is divided into cultural excuses to the center by word and agreed to the frequency standard. The pretext of culture loanwords Centre will be a different standard different from the code-switching. On the basis of the difference between these two sets of related concepts, code-switching is defined as the speaker in the same sentence from two or more different code-language code units of a language behavioral phenomenon. In this definition, (1) unit of code can be to any unit to an article from a morpheme; (2) the usual definition of the language code is still retained, that is, it can refer to the language, dialect, style, and a variety of languages variants, and even personal language. Corpus collection, the form of a questionnaire survey, relying on intuition bilingual bilingual

An OT Approach to the Morphosyntactic Features of Chinese/English Codeswitching

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