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Complexity, Isolation, and Variation / ed. by Guido Seiler, Raffaela Baechler.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: linguae & litterae : Publications of the School of Language and Literature Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies ; 57Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (V, 170 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110347388
  • 9783110386455
  • 9783110348965
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 417 22/ger
LOC classification:
  • P128.C664
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Inflectional complexity of nouns, adjectives and articles in closely related (non-)isolated varieties -- On the origins of complexity: evidence from Germanic -- An information-theoretic approach to assess linguistic complexity -- On complexity of interrogative syntax in Northern Italian dialects -- Complex edges, transparent frontiers: grammatical complexity and language spreads -- A true split? Typological and sociolinguistic considerations on contact intensity effects -- The sociolinguistics of non-equicomplexity
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Inflectional complexity of nouns, adjectives and articles in closely related (non-)isolated varieties -- On the origins of complexity: evidence from Germanic -- An information-theoretic approach to assess linguistic complexity -- On complexity of interrogative syntax in Northern Italian dialects -- Complex edges, transparent frontiers: grammatical complexity and language spreads -- A true split? Typological and sociolinguistic considerations on contact intensity effects -- The sociolinguistics of non-equicomplexity

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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