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Bilingual codeswitching is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon, which calls for explanations on several different linguistic levels. This volume focuses on one such level: the level of syntax. An explanation for the regularities and consistencies in the codeswitching patterns of American Finns in their spontaneous conversations is sought for in the Universal Grammar -based principle of government as realized in case-assignment and agreement relations. A bulk of the Finnish-English intrasentential data get their explanation on the structural, hierarchical level, but this level of syntax is found

Code switching (Linguistics) --- Government (Grammar) --- Finnish language --- English language --- Finnish Americans --- Ethnology --- Finns --- Germanic languages --- Baltic-Finnic languages --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Regimen (Grammar) --- Language shift --- Switching (Linguistics) --- Bilingualism --- Linguistics --- Diglossia (Linguistics) --- Language. --- Government --- Prepositions --- Verb --- Script switching (Linguistics)