This book presents a challenge to the widely-held assumption that human languages are both similar and constant in their degree of complexity. For a hundred yea

Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume – a thematic selection of papers fr

Linguistic complexity is one of the currently most hotly debated notions in linguistics. The essays in this volume reflect the intricacies of thinking about the

A nontechnical introduction to complexity theory: its strengths, its weaknesses, and how it can be used to study grammars.

The question of complexity, as in what makes one language more 'complex' than another, is a long-established topic of debate amongst linguists. Recently, this i