Complex processes in new languages / edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Norval Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aboh, Enoch Oladé.

Smith, Norval

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Creole language library ; v. 35.

Creole language library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creole dialects.

Physical Description:

vi, 409 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2009]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789027252579

9027252572

OCLC:

435802244

Publisher Number:

99936632649