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In:Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 32, Utrecht
Edited by Frank Drijkoningen, Sergio Baauw and Luisa Meroni
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 357] 2021
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Chapter 7
Contact phenomena

The I-language of a bilingual

 | University of Illinois at Chicago
Published online: 17 December 2021
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Abstract
Against the common-sense notion that bilinguals have two grammatical systems I argue that the linguistic system of a bilingual should be integrated, following ideas developed in more detail in López (2020). In particular, I argue that both the lexicon and the post-syntactic operations that lead to the externalization systems are integrated. I further argue that the distinction between code-switching and borrowing is spurious and I extend the integrated hypothesis to syntactic transfer. I use Distributed Morphology to formally describe how an integrated system may work.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Separationism and architecture
  • 3.Distributed morphology
  • 4.Only one lexicon
  • 5.Only one PF
  • 6.Code-switching and borrowing
  • 7.Syntactic transfer
  • 8.Conclusions
  • References
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