MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02697cam a2200277 a 4500
001 2009036623
003 DLC
005 20100325091049.0
008 090902s2009 ne a b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009036623
020 $a9789027252579 (hb : alk. paper)
020 $a9027252572 (hb : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn435802244
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDXCP$dC#P$dBWX$dCDX$dOHX$dDLC
050 00 $aPM7831$b.C69 2009
082 00 $a417/.22$222
245 00 $aComplex processes in new languages /$cedited by Enoch O. Aboh, Norval Smith.
260 $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia :$bJohn Benjamins Pub. Co.,$cc2009.
300 $avi, 409 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
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.
650 0 $aCreole dialects.
700 1 $aAboh, Enoch Oladé.
700 1 $aSmith, Norval.
830 0 $aCreole language library ;$vv. 35.