Single-language and code-switching strategies in immigrant and heritage varieties: Spanish subject personal pronouns in Toribio's cross-modal hypothesis

• Published in: Bilingualism (Cambridge, England) Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 175 - 177
• Main Author: OTHEGUY, RICARDO
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.08.2004
• Subjects: Bilingualism; Code Switching; Code Switching (Language); Cultural heritage; English; Form Classes (Languages); Generalization; Grammar; Heritage Education; High Schools; Hypotheses; Immigrants; Language contact; Language Variation; Language varieties; Linguistic Borrowing; Linguistic Theory; Monolingualism; Pragmatics; Pronouns; Reference (Semantic); Regional Dialects; Semantics; Spanish; Spanish language; Speech; Subjectivity; Word Order; United States > US

In an important theoretical contribution to our understanding of language contact, Toribio elaborates on the familiar generalization, best known from the work of Silva-Corvalán, that contact varieties resemble monolingual lects of the same language in overall grammar, but differ with regard to (a) t...