In:Complex Processes in New Languages
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh and Norval Smith
[Creole Language Library 35] 2009
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 17 December 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.35.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgmentsvii
Simplicity, simplification, complexity and complexification: Where have the interfaces gone?
Part I. Morpho-phonology
Initial vowel agglutination in the Gulf of Guinea creoles
Simplification of a complex part of grammar or not? What happened to KiKoongo nouns in Saramaccan?
Reducing phonological complexity and grammatical opaqueness: Old Tibetan as a lingua franca and the development of the modern Tibetan varieties
Part II. Verbal morphology
Verb allomorphy and the syntax of phases
The invisible hand in creole genesis: Reanalysis in the formation of Berbice Dutch
Complexification or regularization of paradigms: The case of prepositional verbs in Solomon Islands Pijin
Part III. Nominals
The Mauritian Creole determiner system: A historical overview
Demonstratives in Afrikaans and Cape Dutch Pidgin: A first attempt
Part IV. The selection of features in complex morphology
Contact, complexification and change in Mindanao Chabacano structure
Morphosyntactic finiteness as increased complexity in a mixed negation system
Contact language formation in evolutionary terms
Part V. Evaluating simplification and complexification
Economy, innovation and degrees of complexity in creole formation
Competition and selection: That’s all!
Complexity and the age of languages
Part VI. Postscript
Restructuring, hybridization, and complexity in language evolution
Language index
Subject index
