Complexity, isolation, and variation / / edited by Raffaela Baechler and Guido Seiler

• Pubblicazione: Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Disciplina: 417.7
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Variation
• Soggetto non controllato: Grammatical Structure; Language Change; Language typology
• Persona (resp. second.): BaechlerRaffaela; SeilerGuido
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Complexity, isolation, and variation
• ISBN: 3-11-038645-3; 3-11-034896-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824579403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linguae & litterae ; ; Volume 57.