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free morpheme constraint: a standalone construct

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Bilingualism

proposal that a code-switch cannot occur between a bound morpheme and a lexical form unless that form is phonologically integrated into the bound morpheme's language.

In bilingualism, free morpheme constraint refers to proposal that a code-switch cannot occur between a bound morpheme and a lexical form unless that form is phonologically integrated into the bound morpheme's language. This meaning comes from Poplack (1980) in Linguistics.[1]

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code-switching2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs equivalence constraint1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct form4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Poplack, S. (1980). Sometimes I’ll start a sentence in Spanish Y TERMINO EN ESPAÑOL: toward a typology of code-switching1. Linguistics, 18(7-8). https://doi.org/10.1515/ling.1980.18.7-8.581

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