Complex processes in new languages
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
c2009.
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| Series: | Creole language library,
v. 35 |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10364090 |
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.