The grammar of English-Afrikaans code switching : a feature checking account
The grammar of English-Afrikaans code switching : a feature checking account
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英语-南非荷兰语代码转换的语法：功能检查帐户
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10.1017/cbo9780511620867.009
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2007
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O. V. Dulm
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本论文主要研究南非英语和南非荷兰语之间语码转换的结构方面。具体地说，本研究的主要目的是从特征检查理论的角度来研究语码转换的优点，特征检查理论是一种与最简句法相关的理论。本文的假设是，特征检查理论及其相关的原则和操作为刻画和解释英语-南非荷兰语语码转换的结构层面提供了一个适当的框架。在特征检查理论的框架内，分析了英语和南非荷兰语之间的一些词序差异，特别是涉及动词位置的词序差异。在特征检查理论中，词项的移动被认为是由于需要检查与功能中心语相关的强烈的不可解释的特征。这些结构包括带副词的结构、焦点和主题化结构、嵌入的That和wh从句以及是非问句。在特征检验分析的基础上，对英语和南非荷兰语之间发生语码转换的这类结构的结构良好性进行了预测。这些预测是基于来自30名流利的英语-南非双语参与者的数据，通过(I)对视觉呈现的句子对的相对良好性的判断，(Ii)对听觉呈现的话语对的相对良好性的判断，(Iii)句子结构的判断，(Iv)视频剪辑的描述，以及(V)视觉呈现的句子集的相对良好性的大小估计来检验的。结果表明支持一些预测，但对假设的一致支持并不明显。此外，还讨论了语言因素对参与者表现的影响。这篇论文引起了双语领域的学者的兴趣，特别是那些对句法理论在双语现象中的应用感兴趣，以及对双语加工的实验技术感兴趣的学者。
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.