Complex Processes in New Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Simplicity, simplification, complexity and complexification -- Part I. Morpho-phonology -- Initial vowel agglutination in the Gulf of Guinea creoles -- Simplification of a complex part of grammar or not? -- Reducing phonetical complexity -- Part II. Verbal morphology -- Verb allomorphy and the syntax of phases -- The invisible hand in creole genesis -- Complexification or regularization of paradigms -- Part III. Nominals -- The Mauritian Creole determiner system -- Demonstratives in Afrikaans and Cape Dutch Pidgin -- Part IV. The selection of features in complex morphology -- Contact, complexification and change -- Morphosyntactic finiteness as increased complexity -- Contact language formation in evolutionary terms -- Part V. Evaluating simplification -- Economy, innovation and degrees of complexity -- Competition and selection -- Complexity and the age of languages -- Part VI. Postscript -- Restructuring, hybridization, and complexity in language evolution -- Language index -- Subject index -- The series Creole Language Library.