Papers by Sarah Downey-Gimenez
1 Minimalist syntax deals in morphological features, not in words: it is in the business of valua... more 1 Minimalist syntax deals in morphological features, not in words: it is in the business of valuating/checking under local Agree the morphological features of words. Words represent bundles of morphological features (and potentially semantic and phonological features as well), but a basic premise of Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1993 and subsequent work; henceforth, DM), co-opted by minimalism, is that the words themselves are paired up with non-terminals in syntactic structures only after the completion of syntactic derivation. ...
Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2013
This article addresses methodological concerns in research on grammatical aspects of code-switchi... more This article addresses methodological concerns in research on grammatical aspects of code-switching. Data from code-switching have the potential for a unique contribution to linguistics by giving us access to combinations of linguistic features that may be difficult (or impossible) to observe in monolingual data. Nonetheless, the use of code-switching data for linguistic inquiry is not without issues. In this paper, we focus on three methodological questions specific to code-switching research: (i) project design, (ii) experimental procedure and (iii) participant selection. Drawing on experimental data from both published works and in-progress projects, we highlight potential solutions to each methodological challenge, concluding that several solutions are often required to mitigate the impact of confounding variables. In line with previous work (e.g. Grosjean 1998), we suggest that researchers clearly report on their methodology. Our overall goal is to contribute to a dialogue on best practices in code-switching research.
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Papers by Sarah Downey-Gimenez