Complex processes in new languages [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Norval Smith
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| Titolo: |
Complex processes in new languages [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Norval Smith
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | vi, 409 p. : ill |
| Disciplina: | 417/.22 |
| Soggetto topico: | Creole dialects |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
AbohEnoch Oladé
SmithNorval
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Complex processes in new languages |
| ISBN: | 1-282-48500-8 |
| 9786612485008 | |
| 90-272-8877-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910459614803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Creole language library ; ; v. 35.