Complexity and the age of languages

This paper addresses the issue of complexity in language creation and the time it takes for ‘complex’ structures to emerge in the history of a language. The presence of morphological material is often equated to a certain degree of complexity or is taken to signify a certain time-depth in the histor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ansaldo, Umberto, Nordhoff, Sebastian
Other Authors: Aboh, Enoch O
Format: Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/85226