ABSTRACT

Reprinting a 20-year old paper is a risky business, especially one interpreted or misinterpreted in as many ways as Sometimes I’ll start a sentence…has been. I have none the less accepted the invitation to reproduce it virtually unchanged, prefaced only by this brief attempt to situate it in the context of what we know now, thanks to two decades of corroborative research in a variety of bilingual communities and language pairs, about code-switching and lexical borrowing.