1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459614803321

Titolo

Complex processes in new languages [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Norval Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009

ISBN

1-282-48500-8

9786612485008

90-272-8877-1

Descrizione fisica

vi, 409 p. : ill

Collana

Creole language library, , 0920-9026 ; ; v. 35

Altri autori (Persone)

AbohEnoch Oladé

SmithNorval

Disciplina

417/.22

Soggetti

Creole dialects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996386156903316

Autore

Hegendorph Christoph <1500-1540.>

Titolo

The seconde parte of the Domesticall or housholde sermons [[electronic resource] ] : for a godly housholder, to his childre[n] and familie: compyled by the godly learned man Christopher Hegendorffine, doctor most necessarye for all faythefull housholders: now first translated out of laten in to English by Henry Reginalde

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[[Worcester]Imprinted the last daye of february. Anno Domini. 1549. At Dorceter, : By Jhon Oswen. Cum priuilegio Regali, ad imprimendum solum. Per Septennium], Anno. M.D.xlix. [1549]

Descrizione fisica

[80] p

Altri autori (Persone)

ReginaldHenry <fl. 1548-1549.>

Soggetti

Sermons, English - 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Place of publication and printer's name from colophon.

Signatures: A-E.

Imperfect; leaves B2-7 lacking.

Reproduction of the original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0055