Code switching and the complement/adjunct distinction

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 464-479

  Mahootian, Shahrzad ^a   Santorini, Beatrice ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argument adjunct distinction; Code mixing; Code switching; Complement adjunct distinction; Phrase structure theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001646840     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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