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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the contributors
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Major contributions from formal linguistics to the complexity debate
- 3 Sign languages, creoles, and the development of predication
- 4 What you can say without syntax: a hierarchy of grammatical complexity
- 5 Degrees of complexity in syntax: a view from evolution
- 6 Complexity in comparative syntax: the view from modern parametric theory
- 7 The complexity of narrow syntax: Minimalism, representational economy, and simplest Merge
- 8 Constructions, complexity, and word order variation
- 9 Complexity trade-offs: a case study
- 10 The importance of exhaustive description in measuring linguistic complexity: the case of English <i>try and</i> pseudocoordination
- 11 Cross-linguistic comparison of complexity measures in phonological systems
- 12 The measurement of semantic complexity: how to get by if your language lacks generalized quantifiers
- 13 Computational complexity in the brain
- 14 Looking for a ‘Gold Standard’ to measure language complexity: what psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics can (and cannot) offer to formal linguistics
- References
- Index of languages
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
Title Pages
Title Pages
- Source:
- Measuring Grammatical Complexity
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the contributors
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Major contributions from formal linguistics to the complexity debate
- 3 Sign languages, creoles, and the development of predication
- 4 What you can say without syntax: a hierarchy of grammatical complexity
- 5 Degrees of complexity in syntax: a view from evolution
- 6 Complexity in comparative syntax: the view from modern parametric theory
- 7 The complexity of narrow syntax: Minimalism, representational economy, and simplest Merge
- 8 Constructions, complexity, and word order variation
- 9 Complexity trade-offs: a case study
- 10 The importance of exhaustive description in measuring linguistic complexity: the case of English <i>try and</i> pseudocoordination
- 11 Cross-linguistic comparison of complexity measures in phonological systems
- 12 The measurement of semantic complexity: how to get by if your language lacks generalized quantifiers
- 13 Computational complexity in the brain
- 14 Looking for a ‘Gold Standard’ to measure language complexity: what psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics can (and cannot) offer to formal linguistics
- References
- Index of languages
- Index of names
- Index of subjects