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Mixing Codes

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This chapter analyzes momentary intra-clausal switches or insertions that do not change the language of the interaction. Code mixing creates hybrid structures in which most of the lexicon and morpho-syntax come from Greek, and words or phrases are inserted from English, such as adjectives, nouns, noun phrases, verb phrases, adverbs, complement or main clauses, and pragmatic particles. This chapter examines gender assignment to inserted nouns, bilingual compound verbs and the functions of English pragmatic particles in Australian Greek talk-in-interaction.

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  1. Department of Linguistics and Institute of Modern Greek Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Angeliki Alvanoudi

  2. James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

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Alvanoudi, A. (2019). Mixing Codes. In: Modern Greek in Diaspora. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90899-1_3

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