Borrowing Versus Code-switching in West Tarangan Indonesia (SIL International Publications in Sociolinguistics, vol. 8)

Indonesia is a country with a multiplicity of languages, including many indigenous ones as well as the official language, Indonesian, and its close relative, Malay. Richard Nivens, in this study, examines the language contact of West Tarangan and Malay in a town in the Aru Islands in southeast Maluku, Indonesia.

In his introduction, Nivens sets forth the three goals of his study. His first one is to contribute an additional language pair to the growing field of language contact research.

His second goal is "to determine the effect of idiolectal differences, discourse context, and the availability of equivalent lexical units on the occurrence of embedded-language elements in a bilingual corpus."

Third, he proposes a "psycholinguistically realistic accounting of the longer stretches of Malay occuring in the corpus…."

Table of Contents

List of Tables
List of Figures
Abbreviations and Symbols
Superscript Codes in Examples
Acknowledgements

Introduction

1.1 An overview of research on code-switching and other LCP
1.2 Beliefs and assumptions
1.3 The individual speaker perspective
1.4 Conclusions

West Tarangan: An Island in a Sea of Malay

2.1 Language ecology of West Tarangan
2.2 Linguistic differences between WT and DM
2.3 Summary

Methodology and Corpus

3.1 Methodology
3.2 The corpus
3.3 Conclusion

Prerequisites to LCP Research

4.1 Equivalence
4.2 Lexical prerequisites to LCP research
4.3 Discourse-induced Malay lexical units
4.4 Idiolectical usage of Malay
4.5 Lone non-default Malay lexical units
4.6 Modification and negotiation of lexical choices
4.7 Phonological and morphological incorporation of Malay items into WT
4.8 Conclusions

Code-Switching: Causes, Forms, and Modes

5.1 What does not occur in the WT/Malay corpus
5.2 First cycle of analysis: Conversational motivations
5.3 Second cycle of analysis: Form categories
5.4 Fine-tuning the psycholinguistic approach
5.5 Summary and conclusions

Epilogue: Future Directions

Directions for future research
The future of the West Tarangan language

References

SIL International Publications in Sociolinguistics 8