Codeswitching and language change: One thing leads to another?

By A. Backus. 2005

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Spanish-English bilingual voice onset time in spontaneous code-switching (2015, background): “The concept of “words originating in two different language systems” is best understood in the synchronic sense, as Backus (2005) means it, to indicate that bilingual speakers understand the words they use as indexed to or associated with each of their languages.”
Innovative constructions in Dutch Turkish: An assessment of ongoing contact-induced change* (2009, background): “…is hampered somewhat because studies of synchronic data in contact situations tend to focus on lexical issues (i.e. insertional codeswitching, see Backus, 2005), while syntactic changes have been studied primarily in a historical perspective (Haugen, 1972; Dorian, 1981; Haase, 1992;…”
Phrase-final prepositions in Quebec French: An empirical study of contact, code-switching and resistance to convergence* (2011, background): “Although the issue of just what should count as “codeswitching” remains controversial, it stands to reason that the larger the chunks of the donor language involved, the more grammatical structure available for transfer (e.g. Backus, 2005; Winford, 2005).”
Testing convergence via code-switching: priming and the structure of variable subject expression (2011, background): “More recently, Backus (2004, p. 179) considers code-switching to be a ‘causal mechanism’ of grammatical convergence, claiming that ‘[it] function[s] to model syntactic patterns which are then subsequently imitated in the base language’ (Backus, 2005, p. 334).”