Complex processes in new languages

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Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Outros autores: Aboh, Enoch Oladé, Smith, Norval
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009.
Series:Creole language library ; v. 35.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Simplicity, simplification, complexity and complexification: where have the interfaces gone? / Enoch O. Aboh and Norval Smith
  • Part I. Morphophonology. Initial vowel agglutination in the Gulf of Guinea creoles / Tjerk Hagemeijer
  • Simplification of a complex part of grammar or not? What happened to KiKoongo nouns in Saramaccan? / Norval Smith
  • Reducing phonological complexity and grammatical opaqueness: Old Tibetan as a lingua franca and the development of the modern Tibetan varieties / Bettina Zeisler
  • Part II. Verbal morphology. Verb allomorphy and the syntax of phases / Tonjes Veenstra
  • The invisible hand in creole genesis: reanalysis in the formation of Berbice Dutch / Silvia Kouwenberg
  • Complexification or regularization of paradigms: the case of prepositional verbs in Solomon Islands Pijin / Christine Jourdan
  • Part III. Nominals. The Mauritian Creole determiner system: a historical overview / Diana Guillemin
  • Demonstratives in Afrikaans and Cape Dutch Pidgin: a first attempt / Hans den Besten
  • Part IV. The selection of features in complex morphology. Contact, complexification and change in Mindanao Chabacano structure / Anthony P. Grant
  • Morphosyntactic finiteness as increased complexity in a mixed negation system / Peter Slomanson
  • Contact language formation in evolutionary terms / Umberto Ansaldo
  • Part V. Evaluating simplification and complexification. Economy, innovation and degrees of complexity in creole formation / Marlyse Baptista
  • Competition and selection: that's all! / Enoch O. Aboh
  • Complexity and the age of languages / Umberto Ansaldo and Sebastian Nordhoff
  • Part VI. Postscript. Restructuring, hybridization, and complexity in language evolution / Salikoko S. Mufwene.