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• Author: Matti Miestamo
• Date: 28 Feb 2008
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Language: English
• Format: Hardback::356 pages
• ISBN10: 9027231044
• Country Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Language Complexity : Typology, contact, change download eBook. Kolmogorov complexity has been used to explore cross-linguistic complexity variation in linguistic typology research, but we are the first to apply it to naturalistic second language acquisition Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume - a thematic selection of papers from the conference Approaches to Complexity in Language, held in Helsinki, August 2005 - is the first collection of articles devoted to the topic. Typology and theory, Contact and Isolating Languages one of the four basic language types, according to the Schlegel-Humboldt classification. Isolating languages are contrasted to agglutinative, inflectional, and polysynthetic (incorporative) languages. The basic features of the isolating-language type are the invariability of the words (the absence of inflected forms) and the Complexity in linguistic theory, language learning and language change / Wouter Kusters. Grammatical complexity in a cross-linguistic perspective / Matti Miestamo. Complexity trade-offs between the subsystems of language / Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon & August Fenk. Complexity trade-offs in core argument marking / Kaius Sinnemäki. Abstract This paper reviews a number of specific features typical of analytic languages, in an attempt to investigate whether Creole languages can indeed be grouped, at least structurally, with other languages of the analytic (or isolating) type. Based on Sybesma et al. (forthcoming), a study of the nature of analyticity, we select eight features which constitute rather obvious structural Structural nativization, typology and complexity: noun phrase structures in British, Kenyan and Singaporean English - Volume 18 Issue 1 - THOMAS BRUNNER Skip to main content Accessibility help We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a … Language Complexity: Typology, contact, change (Studies in Language Companion Series) (2008-02-06): Books - Algoritmos de inferencia gramatical para medir la complejidad relativa de las lenguas naturales. language, and, in particular, the field of linguistic typology.” (Gil 2008: 129-130) Instead of searching for an objective metric of complexity, we should understand its diverse nature (objection #1). The notion of complexity may help realize some central goals of language typology (objection #2). 3 / John McWhorter -Morphological complexity as a parameter of linguistic typology / Casper De Groot -Language complexity and interlinguistic diffi culty / Eva Lindström -Complexity in nominal plural allomorphy / Antje Dammel & Sebastian Kürschner -The simplicity of Creoles in a cross-linguistic perspective / Mikael Parkvall -Complexity in Language Complexity Matti Miestamo, 9789027231048, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Language Complexity:Matti Miestamo:9789027231048 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Complexity as a function of iconicity – The case of complement clause constructions in New Englishes. In Bernd Kortmann and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (eds.), Linguistic complexity: second language acquisition, indigenization, contact. 6. Conclusion. This chapter has hoped to highlight to the reader the complex nature of the subject matter of linguistic complexity. While we have presented certain models and frameworks used to approach the subject matter, it is crucial to note that the linguistic community as a whole does not have a recognised model. There is no “world atlas of sociolinguistic features”, and there is no good typology of social contact types underlying contact-induced change. But these are the kinds of data we know to answer the really interesting questions about the connections between social situations and the outcomes of language contact and change. Morphological Complexity and Language Contact in Languages Indigenous to North America. Marianne Mithun. University of California, Santa Barbara.It has long been noticed that morphological complexity is not distributed evenly across the world. This paper aims to establish a more direct relation between the studies of complexity in the field of typological-evolutionary linguistics and complex-system theory. The article explains what complex-system theory can tell us about language complexity and how insights from the science of complex systems can be important to the analysis of linguistic complexity. In his latest research he has focused on case marking of the object, the distribution of morphological complexity, and on nominal classification. In 2008 he co-edited the volume Language Complexity: Typology, Contact, Change. questions on the place of Creole formation within larger patterns of contact-induced language change. Keywords: Creole languages, Comparative Method, complexity, typology, language acquisition, language change CREOLE languages in the Caribbean are among the outcomes of peculiar historical

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