Review of Torres Cacoullos, Rena & Catherine Travis. 2018. Bilingualism in the community. Code-switching and grammars in contact. Cambridge University Press. (original) (raw)

This review critically examines the book "Bilingualism in the community: Code-switching and grammars in contact" by Rena Torres Cacoullos and Catherine Travis. The authors challenge the notion that language contact necessarily leads to grammatical convergence, providing insights from the bilingual community of northern New Mexico. They propose a nuanced understanding of how language change occurs, emphasizing that shifts in contextual distributions, rather than direct contact, are responsible for linguistic evolution.