codeswitching

== English == === Noun === codeswitching (countable and uncountable, plural codeswitchings) Alternative form of code-switching. 1998, RELC Journal, Volumes 29-30, SEAMEO Regional Language Centre, page 190, Hendrik Boeschoten discusses the questions of codeswitching and language change and the possibility of a codeswitching norm. 2004, Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie M. Balester, Victor Villanueva, Latino/a Discourses, Boynton/Cook Publishers, Heinemann, page 27, What these beliefs fail to account for is the fact that codeswitching is a universal phenomenon of language contact, a mechanism of language shift as well as language change (Myers-Scotton 210). === Verb === codeswitching present participle and gerund of codeswitch