The growth and maintenance of linguistic complexity
by Osten Dahl
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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 show more mature linguistic phenomena, that is, features that take time to develop. The nature and characteristics of show lessTags
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- 401.43 — Language Language Philosophy and theory; international languages Communication; semantics, pragmatics, languages for special purposes Semantics
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- P128 .C664 .D34 — Language and Literature Philology. Linguistics Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar Science of language (Linguistics)
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