Mechanisms of language change have usually been categorized in terms of either their
structural or their societal properties. At the structural level, a well-established distinction is …

The outcomes of contact induced language change have been dealt with from many
perspectives, such as 1. intensity and impact of contact (code switching, language change …

This volume deals with some never before described morphosyntactic variations and
changes appearing in settings involving language contact. The primary purpose of the …

This exploratory overview of structural borrowing in word-formation discusses the
multiformity of processes and patterns affected by language contact and then reviews …

Contact between languages often leads to linguistic changes. Although the social factors
and the typological characteristics of the languages influence the change process, the …

This paper deals with grammatical borders, more specifically, with the linguistic mechanisms
of contact-induced language change. While all linguists would probably acknowledge that …

Generally, in a situation of language contact, the syntactic effects on replica language (or
receiving language) structure seem to be related to features that have come from one of the …

For virtually as long as linguists have studied contact‐induced grammatical change, the
borrowing of morphological formatives and patterns has been considered a relatively …

The replication of concrete formal-structural material (morpho-phonological forms with
attached meanings) from one language in another is universally understood to instantiate …

Questions are frequently raised about whether typological congruence facilitates contact-
induced language change and, conversely, about whether certain kinds of contact …