An Introduction to Contact Linguistics

By D. Winford. 2003

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Innovative constructions in Dutch Turkish: An assessment of ongoing contact-induced change* (2009, background): “Due to language contact, people may introduce new units into one of their languages by borrowing them from the other language (Weinreich, 1953; Croft, 2000; Thomason, 2001; Winford, 2003).”
Language contact and V3 in Germanic varieties new and old (2017, methodology): “Following van Coetsem (1988, 2000), Winford (2003, 2005) and Lucas (2012), I use ‘transfer’ to refer to the replication of a pattern or feature from one language in another language, and assume that there are two types of transfer: ‘borrowing’ and ‘imposition’.”
Convergence as an optimization strategy in bilingual speech: Evidence from code-switching (2004, background): “In the contact between Spanish and English, as in most contact situations, the influence is most noted in the lexicon (cf., Clyne, 2003; Winford, 2003) – witness the now-common estı́n and bréiks in (2), forms”