Introduction Studies on the pragmatic functions of code-switching, in opposition to its macro sociolinguistic significance or syntactic structure, have been largely influenced by Gumperz’s pioneering classification presented in the chapter he dedicated to this topic in his 1982 book, Discourse strategies. Many other taxonomies followed Gumperz’s initial proposal (Appel and Muysken 1987, Poplack...

In this paper I argue for a syntactic analysis to gender assignment in codeswitched speech. To sustain claim, examine Spanish Det(erminer)–English noun switches (i.e., el bishop ‘the.m’) 76 sociolinguistic interviews of approximately one hour each from bilingual community Southern Arizona, U.S. (The CESA Corpus, Carvalho 2012). Based on the findings dataset, demonstrate that distribution speech...

“Code-Switching”, an important issue in the field of both language classroom and sociolinguistics, has been under consideration in investigations related to bilingual and multilingual societies. First proposed by Haugen (1956) and later developed byGrosjean (1982), the termcode-switching refers to language alternation during communication. Although code-switching is unavoidable in bilingual and...