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CHAPTER 3 LITERATURE REVIEW Optimality Grammar for the analysis of bilingual use attempts to set up a grammatical approach to how the sociopragmatic constraints salient in a given speech community determine the linguistic repertoire of that given community, more particularly its code-switching mechanism. The quintessential aim of this dissertation is to demonstrate how an Optimality Theoretical approach to bilingual grammar works in the qualitative sample of interview data collected in the Hungarian-American bilingual community in North Carolina, and what quantitative sociolinguistic, language use, motivation and attitude variables determine the code-switching patterns observed in this community. 38 ¢
