Show Summary Details
- 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
Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
- 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
