Date:  Thu, 23 Dec 1993 17:42:25 -0700

From:  Rudy Troike <RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ARIZVMS.BITNET>

Subject: Re: modren metathesis



Don et al.,

    The terms derive from Poplack's work in the 70s and have become quite

standard. While Gumperz found that some people could switch only at discourse

or paragraph boundaries, Poplack found strong tendencies related to degree

of bilingualism as to whether people switched only between sentences (or turns)

or both between and within sentences, the latter being the more skilled form.

It had appeared that this distinction and terminology had become quite standard

when the term "mixing" began being used by the group I referred to, partly as

a way of avoiding the infelicity of two such ungainly and similar-sounding

terms. There is now a quite huge literature, which has gone through several

theoretical cycles, incorporating both GB and now post-GB theory.

        --Rudy Troike