Complex Processes in New Languages

• Acknowledgments | p. vii
• Simplicity, simplification, complexity and complexification: Where have the interfaces gone?
  Enoch Oladé Aboh and Norval Smith | pp. 1–25
• Part I. Morpho-phonology
• Initial vowel agglutination in the Gulf of Guinea creoles
  Tjerk Hagemeijer | pp. 29–50
• Simplification of a complex part of grammar or not? What happened to KiKoongo nouns in Saramaccan?
  Norval Smith | pp. 51–73
• Reducing phonological complexity and grammatical opaqueness: Old Tibetan as a lingua franca and the development of the modern Tibetan varieties
  Bettina Zeisler | pp. 75–95
• Part II. Verbal morphology
• Verb allomorphy and the syntax of phases
  Tonjes Veenstra | pp. 99–113
• The invisible hand in creole genesis: Reanalysis in the formation of Berbice Dutch
  Silvia Kouwenberg | pp. 115–158
• Complexification or regularization of paradigms: The case of prepositional verbs in Solomon Islands Pijin
  Christine Jourdan | pp. 159–170
• Part III. Nominals
• The Mauritian Creole determiner system: A historical overview
  Diana Guillemin | pp. 173–200
• Demonstratives in Afrikaans and Cape Dutch Pidgin: A first attempt
  Hans den Besten | pp. 201–219
• Part IV. The selection of features in complex morphology
• Contact, complexification and change in Mindanao Chabacano structure
  Anthony P. Grant | pp. 223–241
• Morphosyntactic finiteness as increased complexity in a mixed negation system
  Peter Slomanson | pp. 243–264
• Contact language formation in evolutionary terms
  Umberto Ansaldo | pp. 265–289
• Part V. Evaluating simplification and complexification
• Economy, innovation and degrees of complexity in creole formation
  Marlyse Baptista | pp. 293–315
• Competition and selection: That’s all!
  Enoch Oladé Aboh | pp. 317–344
• Complexity and the age of languages
  Umberto Ansaldo and Sebastian Nordhoff | pp. 345–363
• Part VI. Postscript
• Restructuring, hybridization, and complexity in language evolution
  Salikoko S. Mufwene | pp. 367–400
• Language index | pp. 401–403
• Subject index | pp. 405–409

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