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McWhorter Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity
1. Auflage 2011
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Why Do Languages Undress?
E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 342 Seiten
Reihe: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]ISSN
ISBN: 978-1-934078-40-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
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1;Contents;8
2;Abbreviations;10
3;Introduction: The creole litmus test and the NCSL challenge;12
4;I Creole exceptionalism;30
4.1;Introduction to Section I;30
4.2;1 The creole prototype revisited and revised.;40
4.3;2 Comparative complexity: What the creolist learns from Cantonese and Kabardian;74
4.4;3 Reconstructing creole: Has “Creole Exceptionalism” been seriously engaged?;114
5;II Creole complexity;132
5.1;Introduction to Section II.;132
5.2;4 Oh, ncc!: emergent pragmatic marking from a bewilderingly multifunctional word;136
5.3;5 Hither and thither in Saramaccan Creole;160
5.4;6 Complexity hotspot: The copula in Saramaccan;194
6;III Exceptional language change elsewhere;214
6.1;Introduction to Section III;214
6.2;7 Why does a language undress? The Riau Indonesian problem;218
6.3;8 Affixless in Austronesian: Why Flores is a puzzle and what to do about it;234
6.4;9 A brief for the Celtic Hypothesis: English in Box 5?;272
7;References;308
8;Index;330




