Carol Myers-Scotton

ThinkersBorn 1934Linguist

Works

  • Social Motivations for Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa, Clarendon Press, 1993

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Known for

An American linguist known for two models of code-switching: the markedness model, in which speakers choose a language to signal the rights and obligations they claim in an exchange, and the matrix language frame model of how switched sentences are built.

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