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Publication details [#52430]

Kuteva, Tania and Bernd Heine. 2008. Constraints on Contact-Induced Linguistic Change. Journal of language contact thema II : 57–90.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

grammar1 | inference | language change | language contact | language transfer

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

This paper argues that, contrary to Thomason (2007), Thomason & Kaufman (1988), and others, there are in fact some constraints on contact-induced linguistic change, related to grammatical replication, as described in Heine & Kuteva (2003; 2005; 2006).