One of the assumptions in contact linguistics is that typological congruence should be taken
seriously when it comes to model borrowing, transfer or copying processes (Weinreich 1953; …

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

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 …

This book addresses the hypothesis that typological similarity–in particular, common genetic
inheritance–influences the outcome of language contact. In this chapter, we challenge the …

In der aktuellen Kontaktlinguistik wurden überwiegend Sprachen in Kontakt betrachtet, die
genetisch nicht verwandt und strukturell distant sind. Der vorliegende Sammelband setzt …

In a recent paper on" Social and Linguistic Factors as Predictors of Contact-Induced
Change" Thomason (2007) reiterates the claim made earlier by Thomason & Kaufman …

In the study of Spanish in the United States, scholars have proposed descriptions of contact-
induced change that draw on the notion of simplification (Silva-Corvalán 1994: 207). Similar …

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

Syntactic change in contact is generally explained as a result of cognitive,
structural/typological, or sociolinguistic factors. However, the relative weight of these factors …

In situations of language contact not involving substrate interference, it is a typological
commonplace that the borrowing of grammatical properties (such as word order patterns …