Code-switching practices in Luxembourg’s Portuguese-speaking minority: A pilot study on the distinctive characteristics of an immigrant community’s code-switching practices within a trilingual majority

Luxembourg is a multilingual country with Luxembourgish, French and German as official languages. It nowadays counts a large population (roughly 15 %) of native Portuguese speakers, of which the linguistic behaviour has come under close attention. This article purports to illustrate the grammatical and conversational characteristics of in-group codeswitching as observable among a small sample of Portuguese native speaking students, and to assess to what extent it differs from in-group codeswitching practices among a control group of native Luxembourgish-speaking students, with both samples hav... Mehr ...