التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
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Grammatical Constraints in Tamil-English Code Mixing among the Urban Jaffna Tamils. |
| المؤلفون: |
Sanmuganathan, K. |
| المصدر: |
Language in India; Mar2020, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p67-83, 17p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
INDIGENOUS languages of the Americas, BILINGUALISM, MORPHOSYNTAX, TAMIL (Indic people), LANGUAGE & languages |
| مستخلص: |
This paper analyses the grammatical constraints of Tamil-English code-mixing (CM) among the urban Jaffna Tamils. Sri Lanka is a multilingual country where there is a tendency of mixing two languages as a communicative strategy used by the speakers. It has been observed that mixing of indigenous languages - Sinhala and Tamil and English is a common speech behaviour which occurs in the discourse of educated bilinguals in Sri Lanka. In recent years, researchers have increasingly focused on the linguistic constraints on code-mixing. From a syntactic point of view, it is proposed that code-mixing is governed by a host code/guest code principle. This principle says that in a code-mixed discourse involving languages L1 and L2, where L1 is the host code and L2 is the guest code, the morphosyntactic rules of L2 must conform to the morphosyntactic rules of L1, the language of the discourse. In order to determine the rules that govern Tamil-English CM and possible grammatical constraints, the researcher involved the mixed method of analysis. The present study drew upon data collected from a recorded spontaneous conversation between bilinguals in a language contact situation in which the two languages are syntactically not similar from each other, namely, Tamil and English. The study addresses the question whether there are grammatical constraints on Tamil-English CM. The researcher has examined the grammatical aspects of code-mixing and found that codemixing is a rule governed phenomenon, that is, there are constraints that govern where in a sentence a code-mixing can occur and where it cannot occur. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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