Codeswitching, borrowing and mixing in a corpus of Xhosa English
The paper analyses selected aspects of the codeswitching behaviour in a spoken corpus of the English of 326 people, all of them mother-tongue speakers of Xhosa (a local African language in South Africa), and all of whom would see themselves as Xhosa/English bilinguals. The corpus comprises approxima...
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The International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
2006
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011582 |