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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Optimality 1heory in analyzing bilingual use:
A socio-cognitive model of code-switching ..................... 43
The principles of Optimality Theory in analyzing bilingual use.......... 45
The interaction of constraints: Two community specific instantiations of the
universal bilingual grammar (Kashmiri-Hindi-English and Hungarian-English) 66
Optimal bilingual grammar: Kashmiri-Hindi-English code-switching .. . . 66
Optimal bilingual grammar: Hungarian-English code-switching ....... 73
CHAPTER 5
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON HUNGARIAN-AMERICAN IMMIGRANT
COMMUNITIES ...................................... 79
Introduction ....................................... 79
Sociolinguistic research on Hungarian-American immigrant communities . . . . 80
Hungarian-American immigrant communities: À history of bilingual contact . . 84
Hungarian-American immigrant communities: Structural position within the
larger socio-historical context ............................ 85
Hungarian-American immigrant communities: Language use patterns ...... 88
The Hungarian-American community in North Carolina:
Sociolinguistic background ............................. 92
The NC Hungarian Club............................,... 110
CHAPTER 6
METHOD.............4.4.44444 44e 113
Data collection ..................................... 113
Analysis ......................................... 117
Participants .................................,..... 119
Convention of typography, transcription, andtranslations ............ 121
CHAPTER 7
FINDINGS ........................................ 123
Introduction ...................................... 123
The NC Hungarian Club............................,... 124
Sociolinguistic characteristics of the NC Hungarian Club ........... 125
Interpersonal language use ............................. 128
Functional language use. .............................. 131
Attitudes to the act of code-switching ....................... 133
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