1. Backus, A. (2015). A usage-based approach to codeswitching: the need for reconciling structure and function. In: Stell, G. and Yakpo, K. eds., Code-switching between structural and sociolinguistic perspectives (Lingua and litterae, Vol. 43), 1st ed. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 19–37. This chapter contains a more elaborate introduction to the ideas presented in the current chapter about how well usage-based linguistics and contact linguistics go together, and what the implications are of their combination.