Andriani, Luigi; D'Alessandro, Roberta; Frasson, Alberto; van Osch, Brechje; Sorgini, Luana; Terenghi, Silvia (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-04)
Syntactic change in contact is generally explained as a result of cognitive, structural/typological,
or sociolinguistic factors. However, the relative weight of these factors in shaping the outputs of
contact is yet to be assessed. In this paper, we propose a microcontact approach to the study of
change in contact, focusing on microsyntactic points of variation across multiple language pairs
that ...