Patterns of Codeswitching in Mixed Yoruba-English Interrogative Sentences | Zendy

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Patterns of Codeswitching in Mixed Yoruba-English Interrogative Sentences

Author(s) -

Ezekiel Tunde Bolaji,

Rifqat Opeyemi Sanni,

Omowunmi Mopelola Adebanjo

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

journal of cognitive science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.108

H-Index - 4

eISSN - 1976-6939

pISSN - 1598-2327

DOI - 10.17791/jcs.2014.15.2.259

Subject(s) - interrogative , yoruba , linguistics , psychology , computer science , philosophy

This paper investigates the division of labour1 operative in naturally occurring bilingual discourse. It attempts to establish the grammar of intersentential codeswitching (ISC) in mixed Yoruba-English interrogative sentences. The paper seeks to find out what constitutes the asymmetry between the participating languages (Yoruba and English), as they supply important grammatical structures in order to produce a well-formed mixed YorubaEnglish interrogative sentences. Asymmetry in the division of labour is

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