Both pidgins and creoles are assumed to have small phoneme inventories, to allow only
simple syllable structures and to lack tone, while mixed languages are assumed to either …

Mixed languages2 are the result of the fusion of two identifiable source languages, normally
in situations of community bilingualism. As recently as the 1990s, the existence of these …

This study investigates the distribution of linguistic and specifically structural diversity in
Northeast Asia (NEA), defined as the region north of the Yellow River and east of the …

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Borrowing affixes may be rare compared to lexical borrowing, but it is not random. The
current study describes regular patterns of affix borrowing in a database containing 649 …

Mednyj (or Copper Island) Aleut was spoken on Mednyj (Copper) Island, one of the two
Commander Islands, which belong to Russia. There are only a few sources available on the …

What happens to inflectional morphology in cases of language contact, including both
instances of borrowing and instances of mixed languages? Examination of data from various …

Morphological strategies for inflectional exponence have traditionally been associated with
different stages in the evolution of languages. Moreover, the so-called MORPHOLOGICAL …

In this paper a model is presented for the description of grammatical change in Slavic
dialects both as model and as replica languages. The grammatical structure of the …

This paper presents a combined analysis of the perception and production study of the
mixed language Light Warlpiri (Australia), which systematically combines elements of …