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Bilingual Grammar: Toward an Integrated Model

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Bilingual Grammar: Toward an Integrated Model
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Luis Lopez
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:237
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenrePsycholinguistics
Grammar and syntax
ISBN/Barcode 9781108706773
ClassificationsDewey:404.2
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; 5 Line drawings, black and white; Worked examples or Exercises; 5 Line drawings, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 15 September 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Does a bilingual person have two separate lexicons and two separate grammatical systems? Or should the bilingual linguistic competence be regarded as an integrated system? This book explores this issue, which is central to current debate in the study of bilingualism, and argues for an integrated hypothesis: the linguistic competence of an individual is a single cognitive faculty, and the bilingual mind should not be regarded as fundamentally different from the monolingual one. This conclusion is backed up with a variety of empirical data, in particular code-switching, drawn from a variety of bilingual pairs. The book introduces key notions in minimalism and distributed morphology, making them accessible to readers with different scholarly foci. This book is of interest to those working in linguistics and psycholinguistics, especially bilingualism, code-switching, and the lexicon.

Author Biography

Luis Lopez is Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Fulbright Commission. He is the author of three books in theoretical linguistics and many articles.