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The growth and maintenance of linguistic complexity /
This book studies linguistic complexity and the processes by which it arises and is maintained, focusing not so much on what one can say in a language as how it is said. Complexity is not seen as synonymous with "difficulty" but as an objective property of a system - a measure of the amoun...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins,
©2004.
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 71. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book studies linguistic complexity and the processes by which it arises and is maintained, focusing not so much on what one can say in a language as how it is said. Complexity is not seen as synonymous with "difficulty" but as an objective property of a system - a measure of the amount of information needed to describe or reconstruct it. Grammatical complexity is the result of historical processes often subsumed under the rubric of grammaticalization and involves what can be called mature linguistic phenomena, that is, features that take time to develop. The nature and characteristics of such processes are discussed in detail, as well as the external and internal factors that favor or disfavor stability and change in language |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 333 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-314) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1423761367 9781423761365 9027295255 9789027295255 9027230811 9789027230812 1588115542 9781588115546 |
| ISSN: | 0165-7763 / |