A typological approach to language change in contact situations
Kaius Sinnemäki,
Francesca Di Garbo,
Ricardo Napoleão de Souza
et al.
Abstract:Language contact phenomena have increasingly been researched from different historical linguistic, sociolinguistic
and areal-typological perspectives. However, since most of this research is based on case studies, an assessment of contact
phenomena from a worldwide comparative perspective has been missing in the literature. In this article, we draw inspiration from
historical linguistics and language typology to present a new typological approach for evaluating evidence that given linguistic
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