The empirical question which is the focus of present research is: How may the
lexicons from different languages interact in the course of one syntactical derivation,
resulting in code switching phenomena? We develop the following hypothesis
concerning code switching: The units of intrasentential code switching are either
heads or functional maximal projections. To get support for this hypothesis,
intrasentential code switching instances from Russian-English-Turkish and Dutch-
Turkish spoken data are analyzed within the minimalist framework. In the data
analysed, it has been observed that the data gathered support this hypothesis and that
the Minimalist Program has an explanatory force for bilingual language processing.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/617217/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 April 2002 |
| Creators | Ozagac, Oya |
| Contributors | Konig, Wolf Prof. Dr. |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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