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Project

Information structuring by multilingual speakers: code-switching as a marker of topiccomment or focus-background.

The project starts from concrete multilingual data, compiled from four sample corpora in the LIDES database: two corpora with typologically divergent language pairs (Dutch-Turkish and English-Punjabi) and two corpora with typologically more related language pairs (Dutch-French and English-Spanish). I primarily adopt the IS framework proposed by Lambrecht (1994), in combination with interactional viewpoints on CS (Auer & Di Luzio 1992), and Role and Reference Grammar (RRG (Van Valin 2005)).
Date:1 Oct 2011 →  30 Sep 2013
Keywords:MULTILINGUALISM, CODE SWITCHING
Disciplines:Linguistics, Theory and methodology of linguistics, Other languages and literary studies
Project type:Collaboration project