The growth and maintenance of linguistic complexity / / Osten Dahl

• Autore: Dahl Osten
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (343 p.)
• Disciplina: 401/.43
• Soggetto topico: Complexity (Linguistics); Language and languages
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 mature linguistic phenomena, that is, features that take time to develop. The nature and characteristics of
• Titolo autorizzato: Growth and maintenance of linguistic complexity
• ISBN: 9786612254406; 9789027295255; 9027295255; 9781282254404; 1282254405; 9781423761365; 1423761367
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910963797403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in language companion series ; ; v. 71.