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Grammatical congruence in Japanese-English insertional code-switching 50388477 高木, 美也子 タカギ, ミヤコ Takagi, Miyako 関西外国語大学 Kansai Gaidai University open access code-switching Japanese-English insertion congruence nominalization 論文 ARTICLE This study concerns grammatical structure in Japanese-English code-switching (CS). The basic premise in the research is that CS is a rule-governed phenomenon. It is not a random alternation of two languages, but some underlying constraints are governing what appears to be random. A study of Japanese-English CS is potentially fruitful because of the typological differences between Japanese and English. How can two languages which are structurally so different be mixed in a sentence? The present paper examines the internal structures of embedded language (EL) materials and explores what rule or principle is applied when insertional CS takes place. The question addressed is what creates congruence between the two languages. The reason congruence is worth exploring is that it seems that a lack of sufficient congruence may explain why certain structures are avoided or are impossible in switching between specific language pairs. Using CS data produced by Japanese children living in the UK, the paper shows that whatever speech categories are switched, the EL materials are treated as nominal and put into the word formation rule of Japanese, the matrix language (ML). It is suggested that it is nominalization that creates congruence between the two languages and that it is sufficient congruence that determines the type of CS as insertional 関西外国語大学・関西外国語大学短期大学部 Kansai Gaidai University 2007-03 eng departmental bulletin paper VoR https://doi.org/10.18956/00006229 https://kansaigaidai.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/6242 10.18956/00006229 AN00046756 0388-1067 研究論集 Journal of Inquiry and Research 85 19 35 https://kansaigaidai.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/6242/files/r085_02.pdf application/pdf 690.6 kB 2016-09-05