03431nam 2200553 a 450 991079245480332120230721015747.01-282-48500-8978661248500890-272-8877-1(CKB)2670000000010940(SSID)ssj0000336045(PQKBManifestationID)11260772(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336045(PQKBWorkID)10278579(PQKB)11548341(MiAaPQ)EBC622334(Au-PeEL)EBL622334(CaPaEBR)ebr10364090(CaONFJC)MIL248500(OCoLC)593294428(EXLCZ)99267000000001094020090902d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrComplex processes in new languages[electronic resource] /edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Norval SmithAmsterdam ;Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co.c2009vi, 409 p. illCreole language library,0920-9026 ;v. 35Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph90-272-5257-2 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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.Creole language library ;v. 35.Creole dialectsCreole dialects.417/.22Aboh Enoch Oladé786585Smith Norval156649MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792454803321Complex processes in new languages3856545UNINA