Language complexity as an evolving variable / edited by Geoffrey Sampson, David Gil, Peter Trudgill.

This fascinating book challenges the idea that languages are equally complex. Eighteen scholars look at evidence from a wide range of times and places. They consider the links between linguistic structure and change and social complexity. Their conclusions challenge conventional ideas about the natu...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors:	Sampson, Geoffrey, Gil, David, Trudgill, Peter
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:	Oxford linguistics. Studies in the evolution of language ; 13.
Subjects:	Complexity (Linguistics)