She was a Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Linguistics Program and Department of English at the University of South Carolina until 2003.
[4] Much of her attention has been spent explaining the social and cognitive aspects of code-switching and bilingualism.
In addition to her numerous articles, she has also published six books, including Contact Linguistics (2002) and Multiple Voices (2006).
[1] Myers-Scotton has received many grants and honors, including a 1983 Fulbright Program grant to study language use patterns in Kenya and Zimbabwe, a 1994–1997 National Science Foundation grant to study grammatical constraints on code switching (with co-PI Jan Jake), and a 2004–2005 National Science Foundation grant to test a hypothesis about the grammatical aspects of the abruptness of language shift.
[5] Specifically, the study dealt with Xhosa-English bilinguals in Gauteng Province in South Africa around Pretoria and Johannesburg.