This article is about the triggering hypothesis for codeswitching. The original version of the hypothesis is not compatible with recent theories on speech production. Its claim that words have a raised chance of being codeswitched when they verge on a trigger word is inconsistent with the assumption that language choice occurs before the formation of a surface structure. A new version of the triggering hypothesis has been developed winch states that the selection of a cognate, due to a large semantic overlap with its translation equivalent, increases the chance of a codeswitch occurring at a following selection procedure. Both the original and the adjusted versions of the triggering hypothesis have been tested and both are partially borne out by the data.