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UNINA9910963797403321 |
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Autore |
Dahl Osten |
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Titolo |
The growth and maintenance of linguistic complexity / / Osten Dahl |
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Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, 2004 |
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ISBN |
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9786612254406 |
9789027295255 |
9027295255 |
9781282254404 |
1282254405 |
9781423761365 |
1423761367 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (343 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in language companion series, , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 71 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Complexity (Linguistics) |
Language and languages |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Information and redundancy; 3. Complexity, order, and structure; 4. Languages as non-genetically inherited systems; 5. Aspects of linguistic knowledge; 6. Maturation processes; 7. Grammatical maturation; 8. Pattern adaptation; 9. Featurization; 10. Incorporating patterns; 11. Stability and change; 12. Final discussion; Appendix A; References; List of abbrevations used in glosses; Language index; Author index; Subject index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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