Corpus-based studies have become increasingly common in linguistic typology over recent
years, amounting to the emergence of a new field that we call corpus-based typology. The …

This textbook introduces the fundamental concepts and methods of corpus linguistics for
students approaching this topic for the first time, putting specific emphasis on the enormous …

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 book constitutes the first typologically oriented monograph on morphomes, which is the
term given to systematic morphological identities, usually within inflectional paradigms, that …

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 …

Ecological models of competition have provided great explanatory power regarding
synonymy in derivational morphology. Competition models of this type have certainly shown …

Typological research points to the possibility that phenomena associated with valency and
transitivity are prone to contact-induced change in a number of ways. One type of evidence …

Objectives: In this introductory article, we advance a unified framework for analysis and
interpretation of transfer of overt linguistic structure in language contact situations. Our goal …

Chibchan has been labelled as “by all means one of the most intriguing language groups in
the Americas”(Adelaar 2007: 11), and for western researchers, this appears to be …

The present study examines the fate of the neoclassical combining form pseudo-in eight
European languages, belonging to Germanic (Danish, Dutch, English, German and …