Measuring Grammatical Complexity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 October 2014
- ISBN 9780199685301
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages388 pages
- Size 246x176x28 mm
- Weight 748 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book examines the question of whether languages can differ in grammatical complexity and, if so, how relative complexity differences might be measured. Chapters approach the question from the point of view of formal grammatical theory, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics, and take phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics into account
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This book examines the question of whether languages can differ in grammatical complexity and, if so, how relative complexity differences might be measured. The volume differs from others devoted to the question of complexity in language in that the authors all approach the problem from the point of view of formal grammatical theory, psycholinguistics, or neurolinguistics. Chapters investigate a number of key issues in grammatical complexity, taking phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic considerations into account. These include what is often called the 'trade-off problem', namely whether complexity in one grammatical component is necessarily balanced by simplicity in another; and the question of interpretive complexity, that is, whether and how one might measure the difficulty for the hearer in assigning meaning to an utterance and how such complexity might be factored in to an overall complexity assessment.
Measuring Grammatical Complexity brings together a number of distinguished scholars in the field, and will be of interest to linguists of all theoretical stripes from advanced undergraduate level upwards, particularly those working in the areas of morphosyntax, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and cognitive linguistics.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Major Contributions from Formal Linguistics to the complexity Debate
Sign languages, Creoles, and the Development of Predication
What You Can Say Without Syntax: A hierarchy of grammatical complexity
Degrees of Complexity in Syntax: A view from evolution
Complexity in comparative Syntax: The view from modern parametric theory
The Complexity of Narrow Syntax: Minimalism, representational economy, and simplest merge
Constructions, Complexity, and Word Order Variation
Complexity Trade-offs: A case study
The Importance of Exhaustive Description in Measuring Linguistic Complexity: The case of English try and pseudocoordination
Cross-linguistic Comparison of Complexity Measures in Phonological Systems
The Measurement of Semantic Complexity: How to get by if your language lacks generalized quantifiers
Computational Complexity in the Brain
Looking for a 'Gold Standard' to Measure language Complexity: What psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics can (and cannot) offer to formal linguistics
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