LEADER 04749nam 2200841 a 450 001 9910790493203321 005 20230801223645.0 010 $a1-283-85786-3 010 $a3-11-022922-6 010 $a3-11-173024-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110229226 035 $a(CKB)2670000000211085 035 $a(EBL)893245 035 $a(OCoLC)796384246 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000678201 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12269012 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000678201 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10699916 035 $a(PQKB)11410757 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000811305 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12363814 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000811305 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10850422 035 $a(PQKB)22008514 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC893245 035 $a(DE-B1597)39079 035 $a(OCoLC)1002232411 035 $a(OCoLC)1004867615 035 $a(OCoLC)1011440339 035 $a(OCoLC)979584591 035 $a(OCoLC)984546978 035 $a(OCoLC)987933029 035 $a(OCoLC)992466345 035 $a(OCoLC)999354620 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110229226 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL893245 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10582188 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL417036 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000211085 100 $a20120502d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aLinguistic complexity$b[electronic resource] $esecond language acquisition, indigenization, contact /$fedited by Bernd Kortmann and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi 210 $aBerlin ;$aBoston $cWalter de Gruyter$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 225 1 $aLinguae & litterae,$x1869-7054 ;$v13 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a3-11-022921-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFront matter --$tTable of Contents --$tPreface: A closer look /$rLarsen-Freeman, Diane --$tIntroduction: Linguistic complexity /$rSzmrecsanyi, Benedikt / Kortmann, Bernd --$tAccounting for analyticity in creoles /$rSiegel, Jeff --$tNothing will come of nothing /$rOdlin, Terence --$tDeletions, antideletions and complexity theory, with special reference to Black South African and Singaporean Englishes /$rMesthrie, Rajend --$tThe complexity of the personal and possessive pronoun system of Norf 'k /$rMühlhäusler, Peter --$tInterlanguage complexity /$rOrtega, Lourdes --$tComplexity as a function of iconicity /$rSteger, Maria / Schneider, Edgar W. --$tAcquisitional complexity /$rHan, ZhaoHong / Lew, Wai Man --$tSyntactic and variational complexity in British and Ghanaian English /$rHuber, Magnus --$tComplexity hotspot /$rMcWhorter, John 330 $aLinguistic complexity is one of the currently most hotly debated notions in linguistics. The essays in this volume reflect the intricacies of thinking about the complexity of languages and language varieties (here: of English) in three major contact-related fields of (and schools in) linguistics: creolistics, indigenization and nativization studies (i.e. in the realm of English linguistics, the "World Englishes" community), and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research: How can we adequately assess linguistic complexity? Should we be interested in absolute complexity or rather relative complexity? What is the extent to which language contact and/or (adult) language learning might lead to morphosyntactic simplification? The authors in this volume are all leading linguists in different areas of specialization, and they were asked to elaborate on those facets of linguistic complexity which are most relevant in their area of specialization, and/or which strike them as being most intriguing. The result is a collection of papers that is unique in bringing together leading representatives of three often disjunct fields of linguistic scholarship in which linguistic complexity is seen as a dynamic and inherently variable parameter. 410 0$aLinguae & litterae ;$v13. 606 $aComplexity (Linguistics) 606 $aSecond language acquisition$xStudy and teaching 606 $aLanguages in contact 610 $aLinguistic complexity, second langauge acquisition, contact linguistics, creolistics. 615 0$aComplexity (Linguistics) 615 0$aSecond language acquisition$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aLanguages in contact. 676 $a404/.2 686 $aHF 512$2rvk 701 $aKortmann$b Bernd$f1960-$0681905 701 $aSzmrecsanyi$b Benedikt$f1976-$01496143 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790493203321 996 $aLinguistic complexity$93720649 997 $aUNINA