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Jeff MacSwan, A minimalist approach to intrasentential codeswitching. New York and London: Garland, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 305. Hb $76.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2002

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In this book, MacSwan accounts for code-switching constraints between Spanish and Nahuatl, a Uto-Aztecan language of central Mexico, while testing two main hypotheses: (1) Nothing constrains code-switching apart from the requirements of the mixed grammars; and (2) code-switchers have the same grammatical competence as monolinguals for the languages they use (p. 22).

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Language in Society , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 285 - 289
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