Crossroads research revealed that in addition to patterns diffused over wide areas, local configurations play a decisive role. Watson (2018) showed that in the lexicon, convergences are explainable through shared social practices, for instance joint agricultural
Crossroads research revealed that in addition to patterns diffused over wide areas, local configurations play a decisive role. Watson (2018) showed that in the lexicon, convergences are explainable through shared social practices, for instance joint agricultural labour, and that differences in basic lexicon are upheld in Crossroads language despite close historical connectedness.
Cobbinah (2017) discovered that agreement patterns are not influenced by contact languages but by the prominence of particular agreement types in a particular language ecology, i.e. in the majority of languages in a particular sociolinguistic space. Cobbinah (forthcoming d) investigated the realisation 