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ERIC Number: EJ524537
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0954-3945
Orphan Categories in Bilingual Discourse: Adjectivization Strategies in Wolof-French and Fongbe-French.
Meechan, Marjory; Poplack, Shana
Language Variation and Change, v7 n2 p169-94 1995
Examines the effect of categorial nonequivalence on language mixture in two corpora of spontaneous bilingual speech--Wolof-French and Fongbe-French--exhibiting different typological contrasts in adjectival modification structures. (47 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, French, Hypothesis Testing, Language Typology, Morphology (Languages), Uncommonly Taught Languages, Wolof
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Canada; Fongbe