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Language complexity as an evolving variable /

This fascinating book challenges the idea that languages are equally complex. Eighteen scholars look at evidence from a wide range of times and places. They consider the links between linguistic structure and change and social complexity. Their conclusions challenge conventional ideas about the natu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sampson, Geoffrey, Gil, David, Trudgill, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Colección:Oxford linguistics.
Studies in the evolution of language ; 13.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Preface; Interlinear glosses; The contributors; 1. A linguistic axiom challenged; 2. How much grammar does it take to sail a boat?; 3. On the evolution of complexity: sometimes less is more in East and mainland Southeast Asia; 4. Testing the assumption of complexity invariance: the case of Elfdalian and Swedish; 5. Between simplification and complexification: non-standard varieties of English around the world; 6. Implicational hierarchies and grammatical complexity; 7. Sociolinguistic typology and complexification; 8. Linguistic complexity: a comprehensive definition and survey. 
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