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 …

Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork offers a diverse and practical introduction to research
methods used in field linguistics. Designed to teach students how to collect quality linguistic …

It's been 17 years since Michel DeGraff's seminal 2005 paper 'Linguists' most dangerous
myth: The fallacy of Creole Exceptionalism'appeared in Language in Society. DeGraff called …

The present multidimensional study investigates the acquisition of pronominal subject-verb
dependencies in Standard Haitian Creole (HC). A corpus analysis confirms that HC subject …

The paper provides the first description of the borrowing of Croatian collective numerals into
Northern Istro-Romanian and explores the consequences of this borrowing for the …

The incredible story of the resilience and recovery of Australia's First Nations languages
Australia's language diversity is truly breathtaking. This continent lays claim to the world's …

This study addresses the question of which case-marker (ie MATter) is privileged in case
realignment (ie PATtern borrowing) by examining two mixed varieties in northern Australia …

Abaza, a polysynthetic ergative Northwest Caucasian language, shares with its neighbour
and distant relative Kabardian a typologically peculiar use of the deictic directional prefixes …

Style guide for chapters Page 1 The stratigraphy of a community 150 years of language
contact and change in Babuyan Claro, Philippines Maria Kristina S. Gallego A thesis …

As an enterprise, linguistic typology is perhaps best understood in terms of the shared
ideology of its practitioners. In studying contact‐induced change typologists can begin to …