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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| Format: | Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/85226 |