BILINGUAL COMPOUND VERBS AND LIGHT VERBS INNOVATION IN PASHTO-ENGLISH CODE-MIXING (Published)
The present study focuses on the bilingual compound verb, which is as an innovative syntactic category emerges through Pashto-English code mixing (hereafter CM). The study shows that Bilingual Compound Verbs (BCVs) are very prevalent in the Pashto-English CM of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The study explored that the BCVs in Pashto is completely productive and do not entail phonologically and semantically in the morphosyntax of Pashto language. It also shows that the dominant pattern of BCVs is the conjugation of the lights verbs kaw ‘do’ or ‘make’ keg ‘become’ which carries the aspectual and agreement markers and the left-most alien lexical element contributes to the core semantic content of the construction. The BCVs construction show that how the light verbs lead to a new verbal category.
Keywords: Aspectual Markers, Bilingual Compound Verb, Code-Mixing, Light Verbs, Monolingual Complex Predicate
CODE SWITCHING IN IGBO-ENGLISH BILINGUAL CONVERSATIONS (Published)
Every human society is characterized by the existence of diverse linguistic varieties. These speakers of these varieties at some points have various degrees of contact with the non-speakers of their variety, which one of the outcome of the linguistic contact is code switching. The work discusses the nature of code switching in Igbo- English bilinguals speeches. It provides a detailed explanation of the concept of code switching, and explains the typology of code switching and its manifestation in Igbo- English bilingual speakers’ speeches. The findings reveal that code switching is functionally motivated and can be triggered by various conversational contexts.
Keywords: Bilinguals, Code Switching, Code-Mixing, Igbo