Date:  Mon, 1 Dec 1997 17:31:37 -0500
From:  Beverly Flanigan <FLANIGAN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU>
Subject: Re: RE>english-spanish radio ad

  Repetition of a complete thought in two languages is very common in
  code-switching, according to many sociolinguists. Was there a slight
  pause between "I don't have" and "no tengo"? If so, then the utterance
  is not really "Spanglish" (which implies intrasentential mixing) but a
  simple code switch (i.e., intersentential or interclausal), in this
  case from a completely English clause to a completely Spanish one.
  Gumperz, Timm, Poplack, et al. have numerous examples like this one.
  This is not to say that code-mixing might not also occur, and in the
  same speech exchange (with mixed word stem + endings, varying word
  order, etc.). Beth's example would appear to be of this sort.