Information structuring by multilingual speakers: codeswitching as a marker of topic-comment or focusbackground. University of Antwerp
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 ...