Abstract
This paper aims to study the morphological features of code-switching in Chinese Netspeak. Myers-Scotton’s Matrix Language Frame Model is employed to explore the morphological feature of the embedded words, nouns, verbs and adjectives in Chinese Netspeak. The study shows that in matrix Chinese frame model, English nouns, verbs and adjectives all lose their original morphological inflection change and syntax feature and follow the matrix Chinese grammar rules.
Highlights
This paper aims to study the morphological features of code-switching in Chinese Netspeak
Bilingual code-switching has been studied by linguists and researchers across the world. It has been discussed from the perspective of general linguistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics
Theories and models have been built from the perspective of sociolinguistics to explain conversational choices, such as Notion of Contextualization Cues (Gumperz’s, 1982), Markedness Model (Myers-Scotton, 1983) and Accommodation Theory (Giles, 1991)
Summary
Bilingual code-switching has been studied by linguists and researchers across the world. It has been discussed from the perspective of general linguistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. Researchers have employed syntactic approach to explore the constraints and proposed models for code-switching, such as Free Morpheme and Equivalence Constraints (Sankoff & Poplack, 1981), Phrase-structure Congruence Constraint (Woolford, 1983), Functional Head Constraint and Word Order Integrity Corollary (Belazi et al, 1994), and Matrix Language Frame Model (Myers-Scotton, 2002). From the perspective of psycholinguistics, researchers have conducted experiments to study issues such as code-switching, the brain and aphasia (Hyltenstam, 1995; Myers-Scotton & Jake, 1995, 2000; Kutas et al, 2009) and code-switching and the mental lexicon (Wei, 2009)
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