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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Baechler, Raffaela[Herausgeber]
• Seiler, Guido[Herausgeber]

Titel

Complexity, Isolation, and Variation

Ort / Verlag

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter

Erscheinungsjahr

[2016]

Link zum Volltext

• De Gruyter E-Books EBA bis 31.12.2026 (ZDB-23-DGG-eba)
• De Gruyter E-Books EBA bis 31.12.2026 (ZDB-23-DGG-eba)

Link zu anderen Inhalten

• Cover

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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