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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 …

In this paper, we propose two new statistical controls for genealogical and areal bias in
typological samples. Our test case being the effect of VO-order effect on affix position …

This study provides new insights into the historical language contact between Classical
Armenian and West Middle Iranian, specifically Parthian. Next to an up-to-date account of …

The aim of this paper is to look at some of the problems with the traditional subdivisions of
Iranian and at possible new approaches. It builds on an argument made in, adding …

Despite the recent plethora of research on copying of morphological items (eg, Johanson
1992; Gardani 2008; Seifart 2015a, b; Gardani et al. 2015 among many others), and the …

30.1 Introduction Language contact describes that state of affairs in which speakers of
different languages have some kind of linguistic interaction with each other. The …

This study compares standard negation in the indigenous languages of South America to
the rest of the world. We show that South American languages not only prefer postverbal …

The fields of linguistic typology, contact linguistics and historical linguistics frequently
interact with one another and each draws on the insights gained in the others. To date …

Morphology, particularly inflectional morphology, has sometimes been considered among
the last features of language to be transferred under conditions of language contact. It has …