Complexity, Isolation, and Variation

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.

Autorentext

Raffaela Baechler and Guido Seiler, LMU Munich, Germany.

Zusammenfassung

"Der Sammelband bündelt gewinnbringend empirische Ergebnisse und methodologische Erkenntnisse zur Komplexitätsrelevanz von Sprachkontakt."
Saskia Grandel in: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, 85/2 (2018), 246-249