The Syntax of Arabic and French Code Switching in Morocco

This book posits a universal syntactic constraint (FPC) for code switching, using as its basis a study of different types of code-switching between French, Moroccan Arabic and Standard Arabic in a language contact situation. After presenting the theoretical background and linguistic context under study, the author closely examines examples of syntactic constraints in the language of functional bilinguals switching between French and forms of Arabic, proposing that this hypothesis can also be applied in other comparable language contact and translanguaging contexts worldwide. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of French, Arabic, theoretical linguistics, syntax and bilingualism.

Examines different types of code switching, including insertional, alternational and fusional code-switching Presents a critical review of different approaches to code switching in the light of a corpus of Moroccan Arabic Introduces the 'FPC hypothesis', which proposes that selectional properties of functional categories can constrain code-switching options

Autorentext

Mustapha Aabi is an Associate Professor at Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco. His research interests lie in the area of cross-linguistic studies and education.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Defining Code Switching.- 3. The Moroccan Linguistic Profile.- 4. Different Proposals for Constraining Code Switching.- 5. Syntactic Theory and Code Switching: the Functional Parameter Constraint.- 6. Introducing the Data and the Participants.- 7. Code Switching Between Moroccan Arabic and French.- 8. Code Switching Between Moroccan and Standard Arabic.- 9. Code Switching: the FPC and Beyond.