Chapter 2 Comparative complexity: What the creolist learns from Cantonese and Kabardian

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Abbreviations IX
5. Introduction The creole litmus test and the NCSL challenge 1
6. I Creole exceptionalism
7. Introduction to Section I 19
8. Chapter 1 The creole prototype revisited and revised 29
9. Chapter 2 Comparative complexity: What the creolist learns from Cantonese and Kabardian 63
10. Chapter 3 Reconstructing creole: Has “Creole Exceptionalism” been seriously engaged? 103
11. II Creole complexity
12. Introduction to Section II 121
13. Chapter 4 Oh, nɔɔ!: Emergent pragmatic marking from a bewilderingly multifunctional word 125
14. Chapter 5 Hither and thither in Saramaccan Creole 149
15. Chapter 6 Complexity hotspot: The copula in Saramaccan 183
16. III Exceptional language change elsewhere
17. Introduction to Section III 203
18. Chapter 7 Why does a language undress? The Riau Indonesian problem 207
19. Chapter 8 Affixless in Austronesian: Why Flores is a puzzle and what to do about it 223
20. Chapter 9 A brief for the Celtic hypothesis: English in Box 5? 261
21. References 297
22. Index 319