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Name: Features of the functioning of code-switching in Bashkir oral speech: partial analysis (a case study of the texts of the Eastern dialect of the Bashkir language)

Authors: Liliya A. Buskunbaeva

Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russian Federation

In the section Linguistics

Abstract:

This paper presents the study of the code-switching phenomenon in Bashkir-Russian spontaneous discourse. The analysis covered 323 eastern dialect texts taken from the Textual database of the dialectological sub-fund of the Machine fund of the Bashkir language (http://mfbl2.ru/mfb/bashdial). This database documents only 2208 uses of code-switches, accounting for only 2.6 % of the total number of word-uses. Detailed consideration is given to the features of foreign-language units’ functioning in the spontaneous speech of the Bashkirs. The analysis of the frequency statistics of code-switching by parts of speech allowed the percentage of code-switching by parts of speech to be identified. Given the structure diversity of the languages under study, special attention is paid to the cases of using formative and inflectional markers (matrix language or guest language) in code-switching. Code-switching structures are inclusions (single lexemes of the guest language) and insular switches (several lexical units or phrases of the guest language). The main pragmatic causes of code-switching are indicated. These are reference, subject-thematic, and citation factors. The texts under analysis feature code-switching patterns practically with all parts of speech, except for interjections, imitative, and vocative words. Of interest, the inclusion of code-switches in the morphosyntactic structure of the matrix language is not found to have a significant impact on the sentence word order. While adopting inflectional and formative markers of the matrix language, code-switches are integrated into a sentence without affecting the correct perception of information.

Keywords: Bashkir language, Turkic languages, bilingualism, code-switching, dialect, part of speech

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