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Complexity, isolation, and variation /

Complexity of grammatical structure has become a center of interest in recent typological and dialectological research. The contributions of the present volume discuss structural complexity from the perspective of language variation and change. Particular attention is paid to the hypothesis that lan...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baechler, Raffaela, Seiler, Guido
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]
Colección:Linguae & litterae ; 57.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Complexity of grammatical structure has become a center of interest in recent typological and dialectological research. The contributions of the present volume discuss structural complexity from the perspective of language variation and change. Particular attention is paid to the hypothesis that languages and varieties spoken by small, isolated communities tend to display greater complexity than others.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9783110348965
3110348969
9783110386455
3110386453
3110347385
9783110347388
ISSN:1869-7054 ;