| Lemma | simplification |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Romaine (1988) |
| Titolo | Pidgin and Creole Languages |
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| Citazioni | I will look further at the notion of simplification as a psycholinguistic strategy applied to a target language […]. […] simplification will have psycholinguistic consequences, since one can expect that greater generality of rules and fewer exceptions in grammar make a language easier to learn. Simplification of form does not necessarily entail impoverishment of meaning, ie loss and lack of certain means of expression. […] simplification begins with the verb, extends to the noun, then the copula, and then finally the pronoun system. I will use the term 'simplification' here in the sense in which Mühlhäusler [Mühlhäusler, P. (1974). Pidginization and Simplification of Language. Pacific Linguistics B-26. Canberra: Australian National University.] defines it as an increase in regularity. |