Format:
1 Online-Ressource (170 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:
9783110386455
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9783110348965
Series Statement:
linguae & litterae 57
Content:
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.
Note:
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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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110347388
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Complexity, isolation, and variation Berlin : De Gruyter, 2016 ISBN 3110347385
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110347388
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Sprachvariante
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Sprachwandel
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Komplexität
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Grammatik
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Komplexität
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Sprachtypologie
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9783110348965
URL:
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Author information:
Baechler, Raffaela 1983-
