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Peer reviewedBeeching, Kate; Poplack, Shana; Meechan, Marjory; Sebba, Mark; Singh, Rajendra; Stolz, Thomas; Thomason, Sarah Grey; Winford, Donald – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1999
Seven peer commentaries are provided in response to a paper that tested hypotheses from a model for contact-induced language change as formulated in Thomason and Kaufman (1998) and Thomason (1998). The model correctly predicts asymmetries between mutual influences of Germanic and Romance varieties in Brussels, Belgium and Strasbourg, France,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, French, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedWinford, Donald – World Englishes, 1997
Reexamines the history and contemporary structure of Caribbean English creole continua, with illustrations from the varied sociolinguistic situations in Belize, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad. Argues that continua existed there from the earliest period of contact and supports a coexistent systems approach to the contemporary structure of these…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Creoles, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
