Grammatical Constraints on Intra-sentential Code-Switching: From Theories to Working Models
This addresses the challenge of accurately modeling code-switching in computational linguistics, though it appears incremental as it builds on prior theories.
The paper tackled the problem of building working models for intra-sentential code-switching based on existing theories, finding that the Equivalence-Constraint and Matrix-Language models were neither sound nor complete for Hindi-English code-switching, and proposed a new combined model.
We make one of the first attempts to build working models for intra-sentential code-switching based on the Equivalence-Constraint (Poplack 1980) and Matrix-Language (Myers-Scotton 1993) theories. We conduct a detailed theoretical analysis, and a small-scale empirical study of the two models for Hindi-English CS. Our analyses show that the models are neither sound nor complete. Taking insights from the errors made by the models, we propose a new model that combines features of both the theories.