%0 Journal Article
%A Endesfelder Quick, Antje
%A Lieven, Elena
%A Carpenter, Malinda
%A Tomasello, Michael
%+ Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T Identifying partially schematic units in the code-mixing of an English and German speaking child  : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002C-6980-9
%R 10.1075/lab.15049.qui
%D 2018
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X Intra-sentential code-mixing presents a number of puzzles for theories of bilingualism. In this paper, we examine the code-mixed English-German utterances of a young English-German-Spanish trilingual child between 1;10 – 3;1, using both an extensive diary kept by the mother and audio recordings. We address the interplay between lexical and syntactic aspects of language use outlined in the usage-based approach (e.g. Tomasello, 2003 ). The data suggest that partially schematic constructions play an important role in the code-mixing of this child. In addition, we find, first, that the code-mixing was not mainly the result of lexical gaps. Second, there was more mixing of German function words than content words. Third, code-mixed utterances often consisted of the use of a partially schematic construction with the open slot filled by material from the other language. These results raise a number of important issues for all theoretical approaches to code mixing, which we discuss.
%K code-mixing; usage-based; bilingual child; English – German; partially schematic constructions 
%J Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
%V 8
%N 4
%& 477
%P 477 - 501
%I John Benjamins Pulishing Company 
%C Amsterdam 
%@ 1879-92641879-9272