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In recent years, there has been a new interest in evaluating 'complex' structures in languages. The implications of such studies are varied, e.g., the distinction between supposedly more complex and less complex languages, how complexity relates to human knowledge of language, and the role...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Aboh, Enoch Oladé, Smith, Norval
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Colección:Creole language library ; v. 35.
Temas:
Creole dialects.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Creole Languages.
Creole dialects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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