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