Portmanteau constructions, phrase structure and linearization
In bilingual code-switching which involves language-pairs with contrasting head-complement orders (i.e. head-initial vs head-final), a head may be lexicalized from both languages with its complement sandwiched in the middle. These so-called portmanteau sentences (Nishimura, 1985, 1986; Sankoff, Popl...
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01851/full |