International Journal of Bilingualism
Exploring Mixed Copies: Evidence From English-Estonian Bilingual Speech
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: Recently, contact linguistics has become increasingly interested in multiword units. At the same time, the code-copying framework (CCF) includes the notion of mixed copies (MCs) that are in-between global copies (‘borrowing’) and selective copies (‘structural change’) and illustrate the transition between the lexicon and grammar. The research question is: What types of MCs occur in English-Estonian bilingual speech? Design/Methodology/Approach: The data were transcrib …