Date:  Fri, 17 Dec 1993 20:40:50 CST

From:  "Donald M. Lance" <ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.BITNET>

Subject: Re: modren metathesis



When I sent my research report to Einar Haugen in 1969, he insisted, from his

several years of working with Scandinavian-American bilingualism, that

'code-swithing' is a more apt term for two reasons: language 'codes' are

switched, and "mixing" carries evaluative (negative) connotations that

are undesirable. In the late 70s someone suggested that 'code-mixing' might

be used as the term for, say, Spanish morphology applied to a base that is

spoken with English phonology. I think I'm remembering it accurately. I

haven't continued my work on bilingualism in monolingual Missouri, but on

my trips to the Valley (which ads-lers can now locate) I have heard lots

of the code-switching that I analyzed in 1969. It's very popular on radio

stations now. Some of the deejays are really entertaining. The switching

may or may not occur at (institutionalized) sentence boundaries. I've

never heard switching that consistently occurs at sentence boundaries (i.e,

where periods might go in written form).

 Pos, si tengo una idea and I wanna make sure que me intiendes hay veces

I just go on and say what's on the tip of my tongue. It may be en ingles or

in espanish. And if we both are bilingues pos no hay problemas, porque

we can both, you know, understand. Este, pero, know what I mean?

                            DMLance