SYNTACTIC ASPECTS OF JORDANIAN ARABIC-ENGLISH INTRA-SENTENTIAL CODE-SWITCHING (*)

This study investigates the issue of code-switching, particularly, intra- sentential switches, that is, mixing within an utterance. The corpus providing the database of this study comes from the responses of eight bilingual Jordanian Ar- abic-English students pursuing their higher education at Arizona State Universi- ty. Findings show that participants don't accept switching into another language after a grammatical morpheme. The more the morpheme is dependent on the fol- lowing lexical item, the less language switching is acceptable. The study also re- veals that the participant's general attitude towards code-switching and the peri- od of time s/he has been exposed to language switching influence his/her evalua- tion and acceptance of utterances featuring code-switching.