Linguistics 1028A/B Lecture 3: Week 3: Distinctions within a Community
19 Feb 2016
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Looking at norms (non-mobile, older, rural, male) o o o o o. Only lived in one place for most their lives. Flashcards of images used o o o o o. Borrowing: taking a lexical item from one language and using it in another language. Code-switching: two bilinguals, highly competent in both languages, switch back and forth between their two languages in a conversation. Creole: develop as a full language from the second generation that fill in the missing parts of the grammar. Mixed language: michif exceptional because nouns function one way and verbs function another way, usually there is a lexifier language (which provides the lexicon for the mixed language, including nouns and verbs) Relexification hypothesis: coming from a single template language, a proto-pidgin. This language provided the structural framework, the blanks if you will, for the lexifier language words. Restocked based on that single form, and that all languages have the same form.
