The grammar of English/Afrikaans code switching
The grammar of English/Afrikaans code switching
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英语/南非荷兰语语码转换的语法
DOI：
10.1002/9781118332382.ch15
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发表时间：
2007
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Prof. K. McCormick
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P. C. Muysken;A. V. Kemenade;Dr. T. Dijkstra;Prof. K. McCormick
本文主要研究南非英语和南非荷兰语之间的语码转换。具体来说，主要目的是调查的优点的帐户的句内代码转换的功能检查理论，一个理论与最低限度的句法。我们的假设是，功能检查理论及其相关的原则和操作提供了一个足够的框架内，以解释和解释英语-南非荷兰语的语码转换的结构方面。一些英语和南非荷兰语之间的词序差异，特别是涉及动词位置，功能检查理论的框架内进行了分析，其中提出的运动的词汇项目的驱动需要检查强大的不可解释的功能与功能头。这些构式包括带副词的构式、焦点化和话题化构式、嵌入式that和wh从句以及是非问句。在特征检查分析的基础上，对英语和南非荷兰语之间发生代码转换的这些类型的结构的良好形式进行了预测。这些预测是基于从30名流利的英语-南非荷兰语双语参与者中引出的数据进行测试的，这些数据是通过（i）对视觉呈现的句子对的相对良好性的判断，（ii）对非视觉呈现的话语对的相对良好性的判断，（iii）句子构造，（iv）视频剪辑描述，以及（v）视觉呈现的句子集合的相对良好形式的量级估计。结果表明支持的一些预测，但统一的支持的假设是不明显的。进一步讨论了在参与者表现中发挥作用的语言因素。本论文是感兴趣的双语领域的学者，特别是那些有兴趣在句法理论的双语现象的应用，并在实验技术挖掘双语处理。
This dissertation focuses on structural aspects of code switching between South African English and Afrikaans. Specifically, the main aim is to investigate the merit of an account of intrasentential code switching in terms of feature checking theory, a theory associated with minimalist syntax. The hypothesis is that feature checking theory and its related principles and operations provides an adequate framework within which to characterise and explain structural aspects of English-Afrikaans intrasentential code switching. A number of word order differences between English and Afrikaans, specifically involving verb position, are analysed within the framework of feature checking theory, where the movement of lexical items is proposed to be driven by the need to check strong uninterpretable features associated with functional heads. The constructions include constructions with adverbs, focalisation and topicalisation constructions, embedded that and wh clauses, and yes-no questions. On the basis of the feature checking analyses, predictions are made regarding the well-formedness of constructions of these types in which code switching between English and Afrikaans occurs. The predictions are tested on the basis of data elicited from 30 fluent English-Afrikaans bilingual participants by means of (i) judgments of the relative well-formedness of visually-presented sentence pairs, (ii) judgments of the relative well-formedness of auditorily-presented utterance pairs, (iii) sentence construction, (iv) video clip description, and (v) magnitude estimation of the relative well-formedness of visually-presented sentence sets. The results indicate support for some of the predictions, but uniform support for the hypothesis is not evident. Further linguistic factors playing a role in participants' performance are discussed. This dissertation is of interest to scholars in the field of bilingualism, particularly those interested in the application of syntactic theory to bilingual phenomena, and in experimental techniques tapping bilingual processing.