Praga às genellas?

It has been sometimes claimed that a particular linguistic change cannot be due to foreign interference because the source language does not have exactly the same structure that has been innovated. However, as Alleyne points out (quoted from Thomason & Kaufman 1988:62), "... in dealing with the input source for creolization, we have to make allowances for plausible processes of change analogous to what in anthropology are called reinterpretation...".