LANGUAGE COMPLEX EVOL VARIABLE SEL C - Al, Sampson Et

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Biographie:

• 1: Geoffrey Sampson: A Linguistic Axiom Challenged


• 2: David Gil: How Much grammar Does it Take to Sail a Boat?


• 3: Walter Bisang: On the Evolution of Complexity - Sometimes Less is More in East and Mainland Southeast Asia


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  • 1: Geoffrey Sampson: A Linguistic Axiom Challenged
  
  
  • 2: David Gil: How Much grammar Does it Take to Sail a Boat?
  
  
  • 3: Walter Bisang: On the Evolution of Complexity - Sometimes Less is More in East and Mainland Southeast Asia
  
  
  • 4: ?sten Dahl: Testing the Assumption of Complexity Invariance: The Case of Elfdalian and Swedish
  
  
  • 5: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Bernd Kortmann: Between Simplification and Complexification: Non-standard Varieties of English Around the World
  
  
  • 6: Matti Miestamo: Implicational Hierarchies and Grammatical Complexity
  
  
  • 7: Peter Trudgill: Sociolinguistic Typology and Complexification
  
  
  • 8: Johanna Nichols: Linguistic Complexity: A Comprehensive Definition and Survey
  
  
  • 9: Kaius Sinnem?ki: Complexity in Core Argument Marking and Population Size
  
  
  • 10: John McWhorter: Oh noo!: A Bewilderingly Multifunctional Saramaccan Word Teaches us How a Creole Language Develops Complexity
  
  
  • 11: Utz Maas: Orality Versus Literacy as a Dimension of Complexity
  
  
  • 12: Ngoni Chipere: Individual Differences in Processing complex Grammatical Structures
  
  
  • 13: Fred Karlsson: Origin and Maintenance of Clausal Embedding Complexity
  
  
  • 14: Ljiljana Progovac: Layering of Grammar: Vestiges of Protosyntax in Present-day Languages
  
  
  • 15: Geoffrey Sampson: An Interview With Dan Everett
  
  
  • 16: Eug?nie Stapert: Universals in Language or Cognition? Evidence from English Languae Acquisition and from Pirah?
  
  
  • 17: Guy Deutscher: Overall Complexity - a Wild Goose Chase?
  
  
  • 18: John A. Hawkins: An Efficiency Theory of Complexity and Related Phenomena
  
  
  • 19: The Editors: Envoi
  
  
  • References
  
  
  • Index
  
  
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  This edited volume can serve as a first introduction to the issue of language complexity, but also as an update for those who are more familiar with the research. The papers are well-written and although definitions vary widely, they are made explicit in each chapter. In fact, the variety of ways in which linguistic complexity is investigated makes the case against equal complexity across languages much more compelling than any of the individual work would by itself. --Linguist List