Bilingual Grammar - Toward an Integrated Model

Using empirical evidence from linguistic theory and psycholinguistics, Lopez argues that bilingual linguistic competence should be regarded as an integrated system. This book is of interest to anyone working in the fields of linguistics and psycholinguistics, especially bilingualism, code-switching, and the lexicon.

List of contents

1. Introduction. Motivating a unified linguistic system; 2. Remarks on separationist architectures; 3. Phases, distributed morphology and some contributions from code-switching; 4. 1Lex in MDM; 5. Building the case for 1Lex: Gender; 6. 1PF in MDM; 7. Lexical questions: what do you know when you know a word?; 8. Psycho-syntactic questions: acquisition, priming and co-activation, and a note on the processing cost; 9. Convergent and divergent paths; 10. General conclusions; 11. Appendix. Restrictions on code-switching; 12. Appendix. The Creole continuum; List of figures; Acknowledgements; References; Endnotes.

About the author

Luis López is Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Fulbright Commission. He is the author of three books in theoretical linguistics and many articles.

Summary

Using empirical evidence from linguistic theory and psycholinguistics, López argues that bilingual linguistic competence should be regarded as an integrated system. This book is of interest to anyone working in the fields of linguistics and psycholinguistics, especially bilingualism, code-switching, and the lexicon.

Product details

• Authors: Luis (University of Illinois Lopez, Luis López
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781108706773
• ISBN: 978-1-108-70677-3
• No. of pages: 237
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Psycholinguistics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Language acquisition, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Bilingualism and multilingualism