Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Simplicity, simplification, complexity and complexification 1
5. Part I. Morpho-phonology
6. Initial vowel agglutination in the Gulf of Guinea creoles 29
7. Simplification of a complex part of grammar or not? 51
8. Reducing phonological complexity and grammatical opaqueness 75
9. Part II. Verbal morphology
10. Verb allomorphy and the syntax of phases 99
11. The invisible hand in creole genesis 115
12. Complexification or regularization of paradigms 159
13. Part III. Nominals
14. The Mauritian Creole determiner system 173
15. Demonstratives in Afrikaans and Cape Dutch Pidgin 201
16. Part IV. The selection of features in complex morphology
17. Contact, complexification and change in Mindanao Chabacano structure 223
18. Morphosyntactic finiteness as increased complexity in a mixed negation system 243
19. Contact language formation in evolutionary terms 265
20. Part V. Evaluating simplification and complexification
21. Economy, innovation and degrees of complexity in creole formation 293
22. Competition and selection 317
23. Complexity and the age of languages 345
24. Part VI. Postscript
25. Restructuring, hybridization, and complexity in language evolution 367
26. Language index 401
27. Subject index 405