Jeff MacSwan, A minimalist approach to intrasentential codeswitching. New York and London: Garland, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 305. Hb $76.00.

Abstract

In this book, MacSwan accounts for code-switching constraints between Spanish and Nahuatl, a Uto-Aztecan language of central Mexico, while testing two main hypotheses: (1) Nothing constrains code-switching apart from the requirements of the mixed grammars; and (2) code-switchers have the same grammatical competence as monolinguals for the languages they use (p. 22).