The Expression of Mitigation in Spanish-English Codeswitching Contexts. A Multifactorial and Multimethod Account. Ghent University
This project wants to contribute to a better understanding of the grammar underlying Spanish-English codeswitching phenomena. In concrete, it looks into the factors governing an overlooked but highly productive construction in codeswitching contexts, namely mitigation structures. These express quantitative or qualitative reduction of a base form, as in a little casa or the casita (‘the small house’). The construction is very differently ...