… the series Explorations in linguistic typology, devoted to … linguistic typology, historical
comparative issues, and problems of areal diffusion. The analysis is cast in terms of basic linguistic …

… relationship between typology and language contact, we focus here on recent developments
in research on language contact in relation to contemporary thought in linguistic typology. …

… Early interest in structural borrowing within linguistic typology focused on the hierarchical
relationship among structures in respect of ease of borrowing. Under “ease” of borrowing we …

… linguistic past from directly attested linguistic and social facts is the business of historical
linguistics; accordingly, historical linguistics … contact languages from other kinds of languages. …

… Linguistic typology is that part of linguistics which attempts to describe and explain the
diversity of structural features in the world’s languages (see Nichols, this volume). …

… What I will do is show for a selection of features how they fit into the typology of language
contact sketched here. The social relationship between the Celts and the Anglo-Saxons in Bri…

… linguistic change, and thus type of linguistic structure, also. First, I will consider that the degree
of contact … the other type of contact situation, involving long-term, stable contact and child …

… (b) The two languages may have been in contact, one … a mutual contact language). In some
instances, similarities due to areal contact are so farreaching that we can speak of a linguistic …

… When we consider cultures and languages in contact, two points become immediately
obvious. First, the most insistent and the most salient contexts are those involving societies of …

… is dedicated to language contact and Section 6 to linguistic typology. Finally, … contact become
linguistically more complex. On the relation between typology, language change by contact…