The Syntax of Arabic and French Code Switching in Morocco
This book posits a universal syntactic constraint (FPC) for code switching, using as its basis a study of different types of code-switching between French, Moroccan Arabic and Standard Arabic in a language contact situation. After presenting the theoretic
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The Syntax of Arabic and French Code Switching in Morocco
Mustapha Aabi
The Syntax of Arabic and French Code Switching in Morocco
Mustapha Aabi Department of English Studies Université Ibn Zohr Agadir, Morocco
ISBN 978-3-030-24849-9 ISBN 978-3-030-24850-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24850-5 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: Maram_shutterstock.com This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
Contact between different speech communities represents one breeding ground for change and accommodation which can affect the forms as well as the functions of language. Code switching (CS), as one result of this contact situation, is an important setting in which to display the dominance of one language over another, or to witness the resolve of a speech community to incorporate another language so as to satisfy their needs, be they syntactic, lexical or pragmatic. The aim of this book is to trace the formal manifestations of this type of language negotiation whereby switching occurs between two or more languages. It will be shown that, in a CS situation, collision of languages is highly regularized by specific syntactic features. A number of different approaches to CS structural constraints are considered, and a model, the Functional Parameter Constraint (FPC), based on the analysis of selectional properties of the functional heads is advocated. The underlying assumption of the FPC, which owes its theoretical motivation to recent syntactic research (e.g., Chomsky 1995; Ouhalla 1991, 1999; Ouhalla and Shlonsky 2002; White 2003; Borsley 2016), is that inter-language parameters, as opposed to language uni
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