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Complex processes in new languages / / edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Norval Smith
| Complex processes in new languages / / edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Norval Smith |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | vi, 409 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 417/.22 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AbohEnoch Olade
SmithNorval |
| Collana | Creole language library |
| Soggetto topico | Creole dialects |
| ISBN |
1-282-48500-8
9786612485008 90-272-8877-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825196103321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Focus strategies in African languages : the interaction of focus and grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic / / edited by Enoch Olade Aboh, Katharina Hartmann, Malte Zimmermann
| Focus strategies in African languages : the interaction of focus and grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic / / edited by Enoch Olade Aboh, Katharina Hartmann, Malte Zimmermann |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (332 p.) |
| Disciplina | 496/.36 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AbohEnoch Olade
HartmannKatharina ZimmermannMalte <1970-> |
| Collana | Trends in linguistics studies and monographs |
| Soggetto topico |
Niger-Congo languages - Grammar
Afroasiatic languages - Grammar Focus (Linguistics) |
| ISBN |
1-282-19466-6
9786612194665 3-11-019909-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Focus and grammar: The contribution of African languages -- Part I. Focus and prosody -- Nuclear stress in eastern Benue-Kwa (Niger-Congo) -- Investigating prosodic focus marking in Northern Sotho -- Part II. Information structure and word order -- Preverbal objects and information structure in Benue-Congo -- Focus strategies and the incremental development of semantic representations: Evidence from Bantu -- Part III. Ex-situ and in-situ strategies of focus marking -- Ex-situ focus in Kikuyu -- Focus in the Force-Fin system: Information structure in Cushitic languages -- Coptic relative tenses: The profile of a morpho-syntactic flagging device -- Part IV. The inventory of focus marking devices -- Identificational operation as a focus strategy in Byali -- Exhaustivity marking in Hausa: A reanalysis of the particle nee/cee -- Part V. Focus and related constructions -- Narrative focus strategies in Gur and Kwa -- Focused versus non-focused wh-phrases -- Backmatter |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807364703321 |
| Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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