Complex processes in new languages (Record no. 215380)
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| fixed length control field | 03121nam a2200349 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 417/.22 |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Complex processes in new languages |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Amsterdam ; |
| -- | Philadelphia : |
| Name of publisher | John Benjamins Pub. Co., |
| Year of publication | c2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | vi, 409 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Creole language library, |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Creole dialects. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Aboh, Enoch Olad�e. |
| Personal name | Smith, Norval. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10364090 |
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