A Corpus-driven Approach To Language Contact: E... Apr 2026

Evangelia Adamou’s 2016 work, A Corpus-Driven Approach to Language Contact , offers an empirical, data-driven analysis of endangered languages including Balkan Slavic, Thrace Romani, and Ixcatec. The text establishes patterns of borrowing, codeswitching, and grammatical replication, challenging intuition-based theories with statistical evidence from spoken corpora. Explore the full text on De Gruyter Brill .