Linguistic Complexity: Second Language Acquisition, Indigenization, Contact
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Beteilige Person: Kortmann, Bernd 1960- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Berlin De Gruyter 2012
Schriftenreihe:Linguae & litterae
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Beschreibung:Preface: A closer look; Introduction: Linguistic complexity -- Second Language Acquisition, indigenization, contact; 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: A construct in search of theoretical renewal; Complexity as a function of iconicity: The case of complement clause constructions in New Englishes
Acquisitional complexity: What defies complete acquisition in Second Language AcquisitionSyntactic and variational complexity in British and Ghanaian English. Relative clause formation in the written parts of the International Corpus of English; Complexity hotspot: The copula in Saramaccan and its implications
Linguistic complexity is one of the currently most hotly debated notions in linguistics. The essays in this volume address the intricacies of assessing the complexity of languages and language varieties (here: of English) in three major linguistic disciplines: creolistics, indigenization and nativization studies, and Second Language Acquisition research. The volume is thus unique in bringing together leading representatives of three often disjunct fields of linguistic scholarship in which linguistic complexity is seen as a dynamic and inherently variable parameter
Includes bibliographical references
Umfang:272 pages
ISBN:9783110229226
3110229226
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