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Code-Switching Across Time and Space

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Code-Switching

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Abstract

This chapter weaves together the theoretical considerations laid out in Chap. 2 and the empirical findings presented in Chap. 3. The aim of this chapter is to connect the dots, that is to consolidate the different facets of the study of historical code-switching texts. First, the findings of the two case studies in Chap. 3 are summarized. Then an approach to the theoretical modeling of historical code-switching based on the Matrix Language Frame (MLF) model is presented, which is designed to capture the observed variability and stability of language-mixing patterns. It allows us to see clearly (a) which features are peculiar to historical code-switching in general, (b) which features are peculiar to a specific type of historical code-switching, and (c) which features of code-switching remain stable through the centuries. The chapter concludes with an outlook on possible future steps that could be taken to further the study of historical bilingualism and collaboration with experts in modern code-switching research.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See McFadden (2014) for a discussion of stem versus nominative.

  2. 2.

    This number excludes genuinely underspecified or ambiguous cases like magnam historiam or melleus ros discussed in Sect. 3.3.

  3. 3.

    Mindt (2002: 201–211) demonstrates that in any corpus of natural language there are 2–5% exceptions to any prescriptive rule, due to online processing errors, idiosyncrasies, or variation/language change.

  4. 4.

    The Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub is available at http://www.anglo-norman.net/.

  5. 5.

    Image to Text is available at http://www.projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/image-to-text/.

  6. 6.

    The ROThA project is available at https://rotha.ehum.psnc.pl/.

  7. 7.

    An example of a recently digitized mixed sermon Amore Langueo in Balliol MS 149 can be viewed at https://www.flickr.com/photos/balliolarchivist/sets/72157627107696303/.

  8. 8.

    Using the MLF model in its current form would have the advantage of comparability with a wide range of studies dealing with modern oral data, but this is not mandatory. The choice of Model eventually depends on the focus of interest of the researcher or research group.

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Keller, M.L. (2020). Code-Switching Across Time and Space. In: Code-Switching. New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics . Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34667-6_4

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