CHAPTER 1 1.0 Introduction - DSpace@UM - University of Malaya

(iii) What must you do?
Examples of intrasentential: (i) “What is kulit?”
(ii) “What is the meaning of sentuh?”
(iii) “What is gerhana matahari”
(Own examples)
(Own examples)
Some researchers like Scotton (1988) feel there is no need to use two sub-categories
intersentential and intrasentential to denote code-switching because code-switching
covers both. On the other hand, some researchers have suggested that code-switching
is generally considered inter-sentential while code-mixing is intra-sentential. They are
of the opinion that this distinction is necessary because the two processes involve
different linguistic and psycholinguistic features (Sridhar and Sridhar, 1980).
Ozog (1996 b) made a study of language use in Peninsular Malaysia and Negara
Brunei. He says that there are two factors that affect code-switching: the
extralinguistic and the linguistic. The extralinguistic deals with factors affecting
language choice, among them are participants, setting,language competency and
language policy.
Poplack proposes grammatical model suggesting that code-switching is governed by
two linguistic constraints. The first is the free morpheme, which predicts that code-
switching may not take place between a bound morpheme and a lexical form unless
the lexical form has already been phonologically integrated into the language of the
morpheme. So for Spanish-English bilingual speech “eatiendo” for “eating” would
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