Measuring grammatical complexity - Newmeyer, Frederick J.; Preston, Laurel B. (Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press, 2017)
Introduction / Frederick J. Newmeyer and Laurel B. Preston -- Major contributions from formal linguistics to the complexity debate / John A. Hawkins -- Sign languages, creoles, and the development of predication / David Gil -- What you can say without syntax: a hierarchy of grammatical complexity / Ray Jackendoff and Eva Wittenberg -- Degrees of complexity in syntax: a view from evolution / Ljiljana Progovac -- Complexity in comparative syntax: the view from modern parametric theory / Theresa Biberauer, Ian Roberts, Michelle Sheehan, and Anders Holmberg -- The complexity of narrow syntax: minimalism, representational economy, and simplest merge / Andreas Trotzke and Jan-Wouter Zwart -- Constructions, complexity, and word order variation / Peter W. Culicover -- Complexity trade-offs: a case study / Kaius Sinnemaki -- The importance of exhaustive description in measuring linguistic complexity: the case of English try and pseudocoordination / Daniel Ross -- Cross-linguistic comparison of complexity measures in phonological systems / Steven Moran and Damian Blasi -- The measurement of semantic complexity: how to get by if your language lacks generalized quantifiers / Lisa Matthewson -- Computational complexity in the brain / Cristiano Chesi and Andrea Moro -- Looking for a 'gold standard' to measure language complexity: what psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics can (and cannot) offer to formal linguistics / Lise Menn and Cecily Jill Duffield.
First published 2014.
First published in paperback 2017.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-348) and indexes.
Keywords: Complexity (Linguistics)