In studies on language contact, word order has been a prominent topic. The linear arrangement of phrases and words has been shown to be vulnerable when people speaking different languages interact regularly, and there is a wide range of works suggesting that such interactions lead people to adopt arrangements from another language with which they are in contact. In the present chapter it is argued on the basis of a crosslinguistic survey that it is hard to identify cases where language contact resulted in people creating re-ally new word orders; rather, what appears to happen commonly is that contact induces people to choose among the discourse options that are available in one of the languages in contact one that most readily corresponds to the structures they find in the other language.
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