Linguistic Complexity : : Second Language Acquisition, Indigenization, Contact /

Linguistic Complexity : : Second Language Acquisition, Indigenization, Contact / / ed. by Bernd Kortmann, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi.

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Linguistic complexity is one of the currently most hotly debated notions in linguistics. The essays in this volume reflect the intricacies of thinking about the complexity of languages and language varieties (here: of English) in three major contact-related fields of (and schools in) linguistics: cr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Han, ZhaoHong,
Huber, Magnus,
Kortmann, Bernd,
Larsen-Freeman, Diane,
Lew, Wai Man,
McWhorter, John,
Mesthrie, Rajend,
Mühlhäusler, Peter,
Odlin, Terence,
Ortega, Lourdes,
Schneider, Edgar W.,
Siegel, Jeff,
Steger, Maria,
Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt,
HerausgeberIn:
Kortmann, Bernd,
Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:linguae & litterae : Publications of the School of Language and Literature Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies , 13
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface: A closer look
  • Introduction: Linguistic complexity
  • Accounting for analyticity in creoles
  • Nothing will come of nothing
  • Deletions, antideletions and complexity theory, with special reference to Black South African and Singaporean Englishes
  • The complexity of the personal and possessive pronoun system of Norf ’k
  • Interlanguage complexity
  • Complexity as a function of iconicity
  • Acquisitional complexity
  • Syntactic and variational complexity in British and Ghanaian English
  • Complexity hotspot

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