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List of Tables List of Figures Abbreviations and Symbols Superscript Codes in Examples Acknowledgements
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
2.1 Language ecology of West Tarangan 2.2 Linguistic differences between WT and DM 2.3 Summary
3.1 Methodology 3.2 The corpus 3.3 Conclusion
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
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
Directions for future research The future of the West Tarangan language
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