Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Deriving Word Order in Code-switching

博士论文改进补助金：推导语码转换中的词序

• 批准号: 1023709
• 负责人: Marcel den Dikken
• 金额: $ 0.59万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-06-15 至 2012-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1023709&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Deriving

This study investigates the linguistic nature of code-switching (CS), the concurrent use of more than one language in bilingual conversational speech. Patterns of CS are not random but systematic, which suggests the possibility that CS is constrained by grammatical principles that underlie human language. This research will investigate CS across languages that have different canonical orders of object (O) and verb (V). CS data show that not only can a switch occur across languages with different canonical word orders, such as an OV language like Korean and a VO language like English, but the internal order of a code-switched constituent may also vary, exhibiting either order of the two languages involved in CS. This project tests the hypothesis that OV-VO variation in CS is due to properties of particular verbs but also the meaning of the resulting phrase after the verb has combined with an object. The project will test the predictions of such a theory against Korean-English and Japanese-English bilingual speakers' introspective judgments of CS patterns presented to them in the form of a questionnaire. CS has been extensively studied, yet there has been no single satisfactory account to explain the diverse, yet systematic, word order patterns found in various language pairs. By offering a unified linguistic account of certain word order variations in CS, this research contributes to an understanding of variation in bilingual speech and how it is regulated. The results of the study will also bear on several current proposals in theoretical syntax. Applying these proposals to bilingual speech is an innovative way to evaluate them. Lastly, this study will have a broader impact on various social and educational aspects. CS is often stigmatized and work on CS will help reduce such negative perceptions. This study will promote CS as a legitimate language form of bilinguals, which is subject to the same universal principles that govern monolingual speech.

本文探讨了语码转换的语言学本质，即双语会话中同时使用一种以上语言的现象。语码转换的模式不是随机的，而是系统的，这表明语码转换可能受到作为人类语言基础的语法原则的约束。本研究将探讨跨语言的CS有不同的规范顺序的对象（O）和动词（V）。 CS数据表明，不仅可以在具有不同规范词序的语言之间发生转换，例如OV语言（如韩语）和VO语言（如英语），而且代码转换成分的内部顺序也可能不同，表现出CS中涉及的两种语言的顺序。本研究的目的是验证一个假设，即转换结构中的OV-VO变异是由于特定动词的性质，也是由于动词与宾语结合后所产生的短语的意义。该项目将测试这样一个理论的预测对韩国-英语和日本-英语双语者的内省判断CS模式呈现给他们的问卷调查的形式。汉语语序已经被广泛地研究过了，但是还没有一个令人满意的解释来解释在不同的语言对中发现的多样的、系统的语序模式。通过提供一个统一的语言学帐户的某些语序变化，在CS，这项研究有助于了解双语语音的变化，以及它是如何调节。研究的结果也将影响到目前的几个建议，在理论句法。将这些建议应用于双语演讲是一种创新的评估方法。最后，这项研究将对社会和教育的各个方面产生更广泛的影响。CS经常被污名化，CS工作将有助于减少这种负面看法。这项研究将促进CS作为一种合法的语言形式的双语者，这是受相同的普遍原则，管理单语讲话。