Code-Mixing in the Short Story of Love, You Are Mine

Abstract

This research is conducted in order to find out the code-mixing in the short story of Love, you are mine. According to Muysken (2000), the three types of code-mixing are: (a) insertion, (b) alternation, and (c) congruent lexicalization. Insertion issaid to be asking to spontaneous lexical borrowing and, depending on languages, it may consist of single bare nouns, bare noun phrases or adverbial phrases. Alternation entails a trueswitch from one language to the other, and involves both grammar and lexicon. Congruent lexicalization refers to a situation where the participating two languages share a grammatical structure which can be filled lexically with elements from either language. It is said to resemble style shifting and variation within a language. Problems discussed in this research : 1) what kind of code-mixing in the short story of Love, you are mine? 2) what is the dominant kind of code-mixing in the short story of Love, you are mine?.The data of this research are taken from http://kaydelailastories.blogspot.co.id/2015/02/cerpen-love-youre-mine.html. Finally the finding of this research all kind of code-mixing (a) insertion, (b) alternation, and (c) congruent lexicalization found in the short story of Love, you are mine, 2) the dominant kind of code-mixing in the short story of Love, you are mine is insertion.