Typology and complexity

  • For the Workshop I was asked to talk about complexity in language from a typological perspective. My way of approaching this topic was to ask myself some questions, and then see where the answers led. The first one was of course, "What sort of system are we looking at complexity in - what kind of system is language?"

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Author:Randy J. LaPollaORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1157789
URL:http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/LaPolla-complexity.PDF
Parent Title (German):Language Acquisition, Change and Emergence: Essays in evolutionary linguistics, ed. by James W. Minett and William S-Y. Wang
Publisher:City University of Hong Kong Press
Place of publication:Hong Kong
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2010/07/19
Year of first Publication:2005
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2010/07/19
GND Keyword:Sprachtypologie
Page Number:16
First Page:465
Last Page:493
Source:http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/LaPolla-complexity.PDF ; (in:) Language Acquisition, Change and Emergence: Essays in evolutionary linguistics, ed. by James W. Minett and William S-Y. Wang. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kon
HeBIS-PPN:229210279
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachgeschichte / History of language
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht