Code-mixing

Code-mixing is the alternating use by bilingual speakers of two different languages within a single sentence (e.g. Kachru 1978, Muysken 2000).

Synonym

• intrasentential codeswitching

References

• Kachru, Braj. 1978. "Toward structuring code-mixing: an Indian perspective." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 16:27-46.
• Muysken, Pieter. 2000. Bilingual speech. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.