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Article: Government and Codeswitching. Explaining American Finnish.(Review)
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- Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
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- March 1, 2001
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Helena Halmari: Government and Codeswitching. Explaining American Finnish. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1997.
As its title indicates, this study is designed to offer a syntactic explanation of code switching, rather than being a sociolinguistic or ethnographic account of a Finnish American community. A precursor of this study was published in Linguistics (Halmari 1993). In the following review, I will first locate this book in the context of code-switching (CS) studies. Then, after an overview of the book's contents, my assessment of Halmari's proposals is organized around five topics: government relations, the role of the subject phrase, the demarcation ...
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