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* {{em|Intersentential switching}} occurs ''outside'' the sentence or the clause level (i.e. at sentence or clause boundaries).<ref name="LiWei">{{cite book |title=The Bilingualism Reader |publisher=Routledge |year=2000 |editor=Li Wei |place=London}}</ref> It is sometimes called {{em|"extrasentential" switching}}.<ref name="Types">{{Cite journal|last=Myers-Scotton|first=Carol|year=1989|title=Codeswitching with English: types of switching, types of communities|journal=World Englishes|volume=8|issue=3|pages=333–346|doi=10.1111/j.1467-971X.1989.tb00673.x}}</ref> In Assyrian-English switching one could say, "''Ani wideili.'' What happened?" ("''Those, I did them.'' What happened?").<ref name="McClure">McClure, Erica (2001). "[https://books.google.com/books?id=t9CFyeFKDy0C&dq=%22Oral+and+Written+Assyrian-English+Code-switching%22&pg=PA157 Oral and Written Assyrian-English Code-switching] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407040859/https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=t9CFyeFKDy0C&oi=fnd&pg=PA157&dq=%22Oral+and+Written+Assyrian-English+Code-switching%22&ots=uP5epXseQl&sig=wfbIw2qnh_1BO20E_xzW5bwvkoY#v=onepage&q=%22Oral%20and%20Written%20Assyrian-English%20Code-switching%22&f=false |date=2019-04-07 }}." In Rodolfo Jacobson. ''Codeswitching Worldwide II.'' Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001. pg 166. Print.</ref>
* {{em|Intra-sentential switching}} occurs ''within'' a sentence or a clause.<ref name="LiWei" /><ref name="Types" /> In Spanish-English switching one could say, "''La onda'' is to fight ''y jambar.''" ("''The latest fad'' is to fight ''and steal.''")<ref name="Woolford">Woolford, Ellen. "[https://www.jstor.org/stable/4178342 Bilingual Code-Switching and Syntactic Theory] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809123403/https://www.jstor.org/stable/4178342 |date=2018-08-09 }}." [[Linguistic Inquiry]]. Vol. 14. Cambridge: MIT, 1983. 520-36. Print.</ref>
* {{em|Tag-switching}} is the switching of either a tag phrase or a [[word]], or both, from one language to another, (common in ''intra-sentential switches'').<ref name="LiWei" /> In Spanish-English switching one could say, "''Él es de México y así los criaron a ellos,'', you know." ("''He's from Mexico, and they raise them like that,'', you know.")<ref name="Winford">Winford, Donald. "Code Switching: Linguistic Aspects." An Introduction to Contact Linguistics. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2003. 126-167. Print.</ref>
* {{em|Intra-word switching}} occurs ''within'' a word itself, such as at a [[morpheme]] boundary.<ref name="Types" /> In [[Shona language|Shona]]-English switching one could say, "But ''ma''-day-s ''a-no a-ya ha-ndi-si ku-mu-on-a.'' ("But ''these'' days ''I don't see him much.''") Here the English plural morpheme -''s'' appears alongside the Shona prefix ''ma''-, which also marks plurality.<ref name="Winford" />
 
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'''Example of 'Insertional code-switching':'''
 
''1) '''El''' '''estudiante leyó el libro''''' '''en el''' reference room.
 
'''"The''' '''student read the book in the''' reference room.<nowiki>''</nowiki>
 
2) I met up with m''y '''compadres''''' at the '''''fiesta''.'''
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[[Shana Poplack]]'s model of code-switching is an influential theory of the grammar of code-switching.<ref name="Winford" /> In this model, code-switching is subject to two constraints. The ''free-morpheme constraint'' stipulates that code-switching cannot occur between a lexical stem and bound morphemes. Essentially, this constraint distinguishes code-switching from borrowing. Generally, borrowing occurs in the lexicon, while code-switching occurs at either the syntax level or the utterance-construction level.<ref name="Gumperz" /><ref name="Poplack 1984 99–136"/><ref name="Muysken 1995 177–98"/> The ''equivalence constraint'' predicts that switches occur only at points where the surface structures of the languages coincide, or between sentence elements that are normally ordered in the same way by each individual grammar.<ref name="Winford" /> For example, the sentence: "I like you ''porque eres simpático''" ("I like you ''because you are friendly''") is allowed because it obeys the syntactic rules of both Spanish and English.<ref name="SanPop1981">{{Cite journal |last=Sankoff |first=David |author2=Shana Poplack |year=1981 |title=A formal grammar for code-switching |journal=Papers in Linguistics |volume=14 |pages=3–45 |issue=1–4 |doi=10.1080/08351818109370523|citeseerx=10.1.1.667.3175 }}</ref> On the contrary, cases like the noun phrases ''the casa white'' and ''the blanca house'' are ruled out because the combinations are ungrammatical in at least one of the languages involved. Spanish noun phrases are made up of determiners, then nouns, then adjectives, while the adjectives come before the nouns in English noun phrases. ''The casa white'' is ruled out by the equivalence constraint because it does not obey the syntactic rules of English, and ''the blanca house'' is ruled out because it does not follow the syntactic rules of Spanish.<ref name="Winford" />
 
Moreover, some observations on Sankoff and Poplack's model were later pointed out by outside researchers. The observations regard that free-morpheme and equivalence constraints are insufficiently restrictive, meaning there are numerous exceptions that occur. For example, the free morpheme constraint does not account for why switching is impossible between certain free morphemes. The sentence: "The students had ''visto la película italiana''" ("The students had ''seen the Italian movie''") does not occur in Spanish-English code-switching, yet the free-morpheme constraint would seem to posit that it can.<ref name="Belazi">{{Cite journal |last=Belazi |first=Heidi |author2=Edward Rubin |author3=Almeida Jacqueline Toribio |year=1994 |title=Code switching and X-Bar theory: The functional head constraint |journal=Linguistic Inquiry |volume=25 |pages=221–37 |issue=2|jstor=4178859|s2cid=27756266}}</ref> The equivalence constraint would also rule out switches that occur commonly in languages, as when Hindi postpositional phrases are switched with English prepositional phrases like in the sentence: "John gave a book ''ek larakii ko''" ("John gave a book ''to a girl''"). The phrase ''ek larakii ko'' is literally translated as ''a girl to,'', making it ungrammatical in English, and yet this is a sentence that occurs in English-Hindi code-switching despite the requirements of the equivalence constraint.<ref name="Winford" /> Sankoff and Poplack's model focuses on the instances where code-switching does not interfere with the syntactic rule of the speaker's primary or second language.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Martínez |first=Ramón Antonio |date=2010 |title="Spanglish" as Literacy Tool: Toward an Understanding of the Potential Role of Spanish-English Code-Switching in the Development of Academic Literacy |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40997087 |journal=Research in the Teaching of English |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=124–149 |doi=10.58680/rte201012743 |jstor=40997087 |s2cid=146311514 |issn=0034-527X}}</ref> Although the model has been challenged with counter-examples collected by other researchers, there is a conclusion that most agree on. The conclusion is that the practice of code-switching demonstrates grammatical proficiency of an equivalent level as a monolingual speaker's speech competence, unlike the claims that code-switching reflects incompetence in either of the two languages of a bilingual speaker.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Woolford |first=Ellen |date=1983 |title=Bilingual Code-Switching and Syntactic Theory |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4178342 |journal=Linguistic Inquiry |volume=14 |issue=3 |pages=520–536 |jstor=4178342 |issn=0024-3892}}</ref>
 
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''Conadail cli buadach Connadil Essa Macc Neirc hiConnachtaib .i. Conna ise intainm. ⁊tucc'' '''sua mater perpietatem additamentum sillabæ dil''' ''.i. dil lem Conna''
(Conandil victorious prince Connadil of Ess Mac nEirc in [[Connacht]], i.e. Conna, that is the name, and '''his mother, out of love,''', joined '''the addition of the syllable 'dil'''', i.e. dear is Conna to me.)
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