Abstract

The aim of this paper is to explore a facet of bi/multilingual creativity in language mixing. The first aspect of creativity is driven by the consideration of formal principles, which fall outside monolingual or single language competence, e.g., [1]. The rule-governed mechanism, which allows the integration of the embedded language verbs into the matrix language, is accounted for. This objective is achieved by employing two distinct data sets: (1) grammatical competence (intuitional data) involving the embedded lexical verb mixing in the Light Verb Construction in a variety of languages, particularly in South Asian languages (e.g., Hindi-English); and (2) an experimental data set that exhibits the relationships involved in the generative perspective through consideration of Universal Grammar. The underlying motivation for focusing on India is that language mixing constitutes a grass-roots phenomenon in India since the pre-Christian era; hence it is a stable and time-tested phenomenon which allows us to overcome key methodological issues in the study of language mixing.

Highlights

  • The aim of this paper is to explore a facet of bilingual creativity grounded in grammatical competence in language mixing by competent bilinguals

  • The first part deals with grammatical competence in bilingual language mixing involving a Light Verb Construction (LVC)

  • Before we attempt to account for the structural properties of the LVC in mixed and single language constructions, it is imperative to introduce the distinction between matrix and embedded languages since this distinction is crucial to an understanding of Language Mixing (LM), which is the key focus of this paper

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Introduction

The aim of this paper is to explore a facet of bilingual creativity grounded in grammatical competence in language mixing by competent bilinguals. The first part deals with grammatical competence in bilingual language mixing involving a Light Verb Construction (LVC). This goal is achieved by employing two distinct data set types—introspective grammatical competency data and experimental data. The use of natural production as data is subject to well-known problems that arise in general in the use of performance data as the basis for claims about underlying constraints in grammatical knowledge—slips of the tongue and other features of performance that deviate from the rules and principles that constitute underlying competence It is best in research on Languages 2016, 1, 6; doi:10.3390/languages1010006 www.mdpi.com/journal/languages. A later section will detail the creativity of bilinguals while focusing on the LVC in switched verbs and in that it will describe the mechanism underlying Light Verbs in LM and offer a principled explanation toward this end

Light Verbs
20. The Conjunct Verb Construction
26. Questions
Second Language Acquisition and Switched Light Verbs
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