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Peer reviewedNapoli, Donna Jo – Journal of Linguistics, 1992
Secondary resultatives exist in Italian and English, where both languages exhibit freedom with PP resultatives but semantic restrictions with AP resultatives (strongly in Italian and weakly in English). This contrast between freedom and restrictions is mirrored in the fact that AP arguments in postobject position as sisters to V are marked in both…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Idioms, Italian
Titone, Renzo – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1988
Offers several justifications for the claim that code-switching is a positive, not a negative, phenomenon. Included are three examples of "mixtilingual" poetry: poetry "mixing languages" in order to evoke different feelings and images within a certain cultural context. The poems mix English and Spanish, English and Italian, and Italian and…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Creative Writing
