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035 _a(OCoLC)649901757
050 1 4 _aPM7831
_b.C69 2009eb
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245 0 0 _aComplex processes in new languages
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by Enoch O. Aboh, Norval Smith.
260 _aAmsterdam ;
_aPhiladelphia :
_bJohn Benjamins Pub. Co.,
_cc2009.
300 _avi, 409 p. :
_bill.
490 1 _aCreole language library,
_x0920-9026 ;
_vv. 35
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 _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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2013.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aCreole dialects.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
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700 1 _aAboh, Enoch Olad�e.
700 1 _aSmith, Norval.
710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
830 0 _aCreole language library ;
_vv. 35.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10364090
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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