ANIEKE, CHRISTIAN and Igwedibia, Adaoma (2025) GRAMMATICALITY AND CODE-SWITCHING IN THE IGBO LANGUAGE: CODE-SWITCHING IN IGBO-ENGLISH, IGBO-GERMAN AND IGBO-ENGLISH-GERMAN. MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF LAW, EDUCATION AND HUMANITIES (MJLEH), 2 (2). pp. 10-17. ISSN 3043-6486
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Abstract
(1967) in the idea of “Being-with-others” (Mitsein) in his famous book “Sein und Zeit” (translated in English as “Being and Time” ). Human beings are also capable of acquiring many languages. The more the cultures they interact with, the more languages they are likely to learn and also achieve competence and fluency in. Language users who are bilingual or multilingual tend to switch codes, especially in their informal speeches and writings. Many scholars have studied and written on code-switching or code-mixing as a linguistic or sociolinguistic phenomenon. The approach of these scholars, in contradistinction from ours, is the classification of code-mixed elements as words, phrases, and sentences (intra- and extra-sentential code-switching). Our approach is to examine the grammaticality of the English and German elements in the code-mixed sentences. Our research has revealed that Igbo code-switchers often use grammatically incorrect English or German sentences in their code-switching conversations.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) P Language and Literature > PF West Germanic P Language and Literature > PT Germanic literature |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Faculty of Law > Faculty of Management and Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | mrs chioma hannah |
| Date Deposited: | 23 May 2025 10:09 |
| Last Modified: | 23 May 2025 14:47 |
| URI: | http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/4636 |
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