Complex processes in new languages
By: edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Norval Smith.
Contributors: Aboh, Enoch Oladé.; Smith, Norval.
Series: Creole language library -- v. 35; Creole language library -- v. 35.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.; John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9789027252579
Subjects: Creole dialects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Simplicity, simplification, complexity and complexification: where have the interfaces gone? / Enoch O. Aboh and Norval Smith; title: Part I. Morphophonology. Initial vowel agglutination in the Gulf of Guinea creoles / Tjerk Hagemeijer; title: Simplification of a complex part of grammar or not? What happened to KiKoongo nouns in Saramaccan? / Norval Smith; title: Reducing phonological complexity and grammatical opaqueness: Old Tibetan as a lingua franca and the development of the modern Tibetan varieties / Bettina Zeisler; title: Part II. Verbal morphology. Verb allomorphy and the syntax of phases / Tonjes Veenstra; title: The invisible hand in creole genesis: reanalysis in the formation of Berbice Dutch / Silvia Kouwenberg; title: Complexification or regularization of paradigms: the case of prepositional verbs in Solomon Islands Pijin / Christine Jourdan; title: Part III. Nominals. The Mauritian Creole determiner system: a historical overview / Diana Guillemin; title: Demonstratives in Afrikaans and Cape Dutch Pidgin: a first attempt / Hans den Besten; title: Part IV. The selection of features in complex morphology. Contact, complexification and change in Mindanao Chabacano structure / Anthony P. Grant; title: Morphosyntactic finiteness as increased complexity in a mixed negation system / Peter Slomanson; title: Contact language formation in evolutionary terms / Umberto Ansaldo; title: Part V. Evaluating simplification and complexification. Economy, innovation and degrees of complexity in creole formation / Marlyse Baptista; title: Competition and selection: that's all! / Enoch O. Aboh; title: Complexity and the age of languages / Umberto Ansaldo and Sebastian Nordhoff; title: Part VI. Postscript. Restructuring, hybridization, and complexity in language evolution / Salikoko S. Mufwene.