This book deals with codeswitching, the use of two or more different languages in the same conversation. The author advances a theoretical argument which aims a

As much a study in grammatical theory as of language in use, the aim of this book is to describe and explain intrasential codeswitching - the production of two

Code-switching - the alternating use of two languages in the same stretch of discourse by a bilingual speaker - is a dominant topic in the study of bilingualism

The study of code-switching has been carried out from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic perspectives, largely in isolation from each other. This

This book reassesses theoretical approaches to diglossia and code-switching in the light of empirical data from Egypt. The work is based on a corpus of monologu