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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><b>Peter Arkadiev <<a href="mailto:peterarkadiev@YANDEX.RU">peterarkadiev@YANDEX.RU</a>> den 8. juni 2014 kl. 22:46 +0200 skrev:</b></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Dear typologists,</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">let me draw your attention, especially of those who are interested in the much-debated question of assessing the complexity of creole and non-creole languages, to an already not so recent but yet unpublished presentation by Olivier Bonami and Fabiola Henri on measuring the inflectional complexity of French and Mauritian:</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/Gens/Bonami/presentations/BonamiBoyeHenri-SanDiego-2011.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/Gens/Bonami/presentations/BonamiBoyeHenri-SanDiego-2011.pdf</a></font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">In my view, this work deserves attention of those who take morphology and compitational methods seriously.</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Best regards,</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Peter</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">-- </font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Peter Arkadiev, PhD</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Institute of Slavic Studies</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Russian Academy of Sciences </font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Leninsky prospekt 32-A 119334 Moscow</font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><a href="mailto:peterarkadiev@yandex.ru">peterarkadiev@yandex.ru</a></font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.inslav.ru/ob-institute/sotrudniki/279-peter-arkadiev" target="_blank">http://www.inslav.ru/ob-institute/sotrudniki/279-peter-arkadiev</a></font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Dear Peter and typologists,</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">If Mauritian is indeed more complex in one aspect in one calculation method from one perspective and within</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">one realm of grammar (morphology) and that is worth celebrating and propagating, </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">it may be the case that overall Mauritian creole is less complex morphologically than French.</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Even if so, would it mean that languages with less morphology are somehow less interesting, less intriguing or</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">a lesser kind of language? I don't think so. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">This article sheds light on the complexity issue where creoles are contrasted with non-creoles:</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="MinionPro-Regular" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:MinionPro-Regular;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">Parkvall, Mikael. 2008. The simplicity of creoles in a cross-linguistic perspective. In Matti Miestamo,</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="MinionPro-Regular" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:MinionPro-Regular;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">Kaius Sinnemaki, & Fred Karlsson (eds.), </font><font face="MinionPro-It" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:MinionPro-It;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;"><i>Language Complexity. Typology, Contact,</i></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="MinionPro-It" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:MinionPro-It;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;"><i>Change</i></font><font face="MinionPro-Regular" size="-1" color="#000000" style="font-family:MinionPro-Regular;font-size:9pt;color:#000000;">, 265–285. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">This article argues that creoles cluster separately in a sample of languages of the world, not because</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">some languages ar less complex, but on the basis of a broad typological profile: </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial Unicode MS;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Bakker, Peter, Aymeric Daval-Markussen, Mikael Parkvall and Ingo Plag. 2013. Creoles are typologically distinct from non-creoles. In: Bhatt, Parth and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), Creole Languages and Linguistic Typology, </font><font face="Arial Unicode MS Western" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial Unicode MS Western;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">(pp. 9–45) (reprinted from Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 2011).</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Peter Bakker email: <a href="mailto:linpb@hum.au.dk">linpb@hum.au.dk</a></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Linguistics tel. (45) 87162146</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Aarhus University tel. institute: (0045)87162156</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Bygning 1485- 619</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">DK 8000 Aarhus C</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Fredrik Nielsens vej 7, bygn. 1444</font></div>
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