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Recent years have seen an upsurge of interest in the phenomena of language contact and in the application of new methods to the investigation of this phenomenon, ranging from such general works as Thomason & Kaufman (1988) to detailed specific studies on such phenomena as code-switching and creóle genesis.
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free junctors, converbial clauses, various linguistic domains, combinational patterns, grammatical relators, global copying, main clause predicators, combinational features, combinational copies, semantically relevant syntax, first actant, heavy copying, selective copies, predicate core, areal tendencies, relational particles, global copies, mixed copies, selective copying, syntactic influence, donor language, genitive attribute, clause subordination, recipient language, primary stem
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Western Armenian, Anatolian Greek, Modern Persian, Old Armenian, Afghan Uzbek, Middle Persian, Old Uyghur, Middle Armenian, Cappadocian Greek, Central Anatolian, Eastern Turkestan, Turkish Ali, Altay Turkic, Modern Greek, Khalkha Mongolian, Western Turkestan
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