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Download full textMcCormick, Kay – 1988
A study investigated how and why code switching and mixing occurs between English and Afrikaans in a region of South Africa. In District Six, non-standard Afrikaans seems to be a mixed code, and it is unclear whether non-standard English is a mixed code. Consequently, it is unclear when codes are being switched or mixed. The analysis looks at…
Descriptors: Afrikaans, Code Switching (Language), Comparative Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics
Dube, Sibusisiwe – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 2000
A notable feature of developing interlanguage grammars is the apparent optionality in those areas of grammar where optionality is not characteristic of stable state grammars. In the Valueless Features Hypothesis, it is proposed that the appearance of apparent optionality in the very early stages of interlanguage development is due to the partial…
Descriptors: English, Error Analysis (Language), Foreign Countries, Grammar
