FEDERICA GHIRARDINI Morphological Constraints on Intra-sentential Code-Switching: toward a standardization of Spanglish Grammar*

Spanglish is a language that results from the verbal encounter between the English and the Spanish languages and civilizations. It is a hybrid language whose basis is Spanish with the introduction of English terms and constituents. There are actually two processes at the basis of the hybridization: 1) lexical borrowing, i.e. importation of certain linguistic properties from a languag