Before starting your review, please read Reviewer's guidelines. 

Reviewers are asked to provide comment according to the following suggested template (which is a modified version of the suggested template of Glossa: a journal of general linguistics).

Please copy the following template below into a format of your choice (txt, odt, latex/pdf, etc.) and fill it in. 

1. Publication recommendation: one of the "accept submission", "revisions required", "revise and resubmit for review", "reject".

   Notes: "accept" does not preclude requiring minor revisions; "revisions required" means that the reviewer does not consider a full round of review necessary, trusting the Handling Editorial Team to supervise the implementation of the revisions, without further external review.

2. Short justification of recommendation: a brief description of what the paper sets out to do, and whether it does so convincingly or not. Recommended length 1-2 paragraphs. 
3. Does the paper advance our understanding of language contact, symbiosis, and change in multilingual settings?
4. Is the empirical content of the paper sound and ethically sourced?
5. Does the paper make a broader proposal about an aspect of linguistic theory potentially of interest to most of this journal's readership?
6. Would adding a further perspective be beneficial for reaching a holistic explanation?
7. Is the argumentation behind the paper’s conclusions both clear (i.e., transparent and comprehensible for the reader) and sound (i.e., the premises and data justify the conclusions)? 
8. Comment on (i) the paper’s premises or the conceptual framework that it assumes, (ii) whether the article would be understandable to a broad range of the journal’s readers, and (iii) specific suggestions for how to make the article accessible to readers working in different conceptual frameworks. 
9. Any other comments relevant to the evaluation of the paper as a whole.
10. Suggestions for improving the paper.
11. Specific line-by-line comments on details of the paper (preferably, a file with annotations to this effect). 

In principle Glossa Contact does not accept papers of more than 15,000 words. Therefore, if the paper is close to or over this limit and you are recommending expansion in some area, it would be helpful if you could also identify areas in which the paper might be reduced.