LEADER 03431nam 2200553 a 450 001 9910792454803321 005 20230721015747.0 010 $a1-282-48500-8 010 $a9786612485008 010 $a90-272-8877-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000010940 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000336045 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11260772 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336045 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10278579 035 $a(PQKB)11548341 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC622334 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL622334 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10364090 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL248500 035 $a(OCoLC)593294428 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000010940 100 $a20090902d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aComplex processes in new languages$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Enoch O. Aboh, Norval Smith 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia $cJohn Benjamins Pub. Co.$dc2009 215 $avi, 409 p. $cill 225 1 $aCreole language library,$x0920-9026 ;$vv. 35 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a90-272-5257-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aAcknowledgments -- Simplicity, simplification, complexity and complexification: where have the interfaces gone? / Enoch O. Aboh and Norval Smith -- Part I. Morphophonology. Initial vowel agglutination in the Gulf of Guinea creoles / Tjerk Hagemeijer -- Simplification of a complex part of grammar or not? What happened to KiKoongo nouns in Saramaccan? / Norval Smith -- Reducing phonological complexity and grammatical opaqueness: Old Tibetan as a lingua franca and the development of the modern Tibetan varieties / Bettina Zeisler -- Part II. Verbal morphology. Verb allomorphy and the syntax of phases / Tonjes Veenstra -- The invisible hand in creole genesis: reanalysis in the formation of Berbice Dutch / Silvia Kouwenberg -- Complexification or regularization of paradigms: the case of prepositional verbs in Solomon Islands Pijin / Christine Jourdan -- Part III. Nominals. The Mauritian Creole determiner system: a historical overview / Diana Guillemin -- Demonstratives in Afrikaans and Cape Dutch Pidgin: a first attempt / Hans den Besten -- Part IV. The selection of features in complex morphology. Contact, complexification and change in Mindanao Chabacano structure / Anthony P. Grant -- Morphosyntactic finiteness as increased complexity in a mixed negation system / Peter Slomanson -- Contact language formation in evolutionary terms / Umberto Ansaldo -- Part V. Evaluating simplification and complexification. Economy, innovation and degrees of complexity in creole formation / Marlyse Baptista -- Competition and selection: that's all! / Enoch O. Aboh -- Complexity and the age of languages / Umberto Ansaldo and Sebastian Nordhoff -- Part VI. Postscript. Restructuring, hybridization, and complexity in language evolution / Salikoko S. Mufwene. 410 0$aCreole language library ;$vv. 35. 606 $aCreole dialects 615 0$aCreole dialects. 676 $a417/.22 701 $aAboh$b Enoch Olade?$0786585 701 $aSmith$b Norval$0156649 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792454803321 996 $aComplex processes in new languages$93856545 997 $aUNINA