codeswitching

See also: code-switching and code switching

English

Noun

codeswitching (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of code-switching
   • 1998, RELC Journal, Volumes 29-30, SEAMEO Regional Language Centre, page 190,

     Hendrik Boeschoten discusses the questions of codeswitching and language change and the possibility of a codeswitching norm.

   • 2004, Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie M. Balester, Victor Villanueva, Latino/a Discourses, Boynton/Cook Publishers, Heinemann, page 27,

     What these beliefs fail to account for is the fact that codeswitching is a universal phenomenon of language contact, a mechanism of language shift as well as language change (Myers-Scotton 210).

   • 2006, Carol Myers-Scotton, Multiple Voices, Wiley, page 241:

     We deal only with the clause, because it is only within the clause that the language varieties involved in codeswitching are in contact.

Verb

codeswitching

1. present participle and gerund of codeswitch