For quite some time, the genealogical classification of African languages has been in a
peculiar situation, one which is linked intricably to Greenberg's (1963a) study. His work is …

This book proposes a corpus-driven approach to language contact based on the study of
endangered languages. Drawing on variationist and language contact frameworks, it …

We report on the rapid birth of a new language in Australia, Gurindji Kriol, from the admixture
of Gurindji and Kriol. This study is the first investigation of contact-induced change within a …

A widespread assumption in the language contact literature is that affixes are never
borrowed directly, but only indirectly, that is, as part of complex loanwords. From such …

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

This innovative handbook takes a fresh look at the currently underestimated linguistic
diversity of Africa, the continent with the largest number of languages in the world. It covers …

Whereas contact-induced morphological change is not rare in word formation, it is
exceptional in inflection. Inflectional borrowing is distinguished from mere quotation of …

Borrowing affixes may be rare compared to lexical borrowing, but it is not random. The
current study describes regular patterns of affix borrowing in a database containing 649 …

Contact-induced change among related languages has been considered problematic for
language reconstruction. In this article, I consider several aspects of the theory of language …

The present paper explores the intersection between typological rarities, matter borrowing
and pattern borrowing in the Gran Chaco of South America. In this region the only two living …