Language Contact and Grammatical Change

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Innovative constructions in Dutch Turkish: An assessment of ongoing contact-induced change* (2009, background): “This is no doubt because the existence of constructions and their place between lexicon and syntax on a continuum is normally not assumed outside cognitive linguistics, and cognitive linguistics has rarely been applied to contact data (see, however, Heine and Kuteva, 2005 for a similar approach).”
Phrase-final prepositions in Quebec French: An empirical study of contact, code-switching and resistance to convergence* (2011, background): “…vehicle for diffusion of structural and other features across languages” (Winford, 2005, p. 86), CS brings about structural borrowing 2 Some (e.g. Heine & Kuteva, 2005) would argue that criterion (iv) is not strictly necessary, since contact could simply act as a trigger for internal…”