TY  - BOOK
AU  - Newmeyer,Frederick J.
AU  - Preston,Laurel B.
TI  - Measuring grammatical complexity
T2  - Oxford linguistics
SN  - 9780199685301 (hbk.)
AV  - P128.C664 M43 2014
U1  - 401/.43 23
PY  - 0000///
CY  -  
PB  -  
KW  - Complexity (Linguistics)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-348) and indexes; Introduction / Frederick J. Newmeyer and Laurel B. Preston -- Major contributions from formal linguistics to the complexity debate / John A. Hawkins -- Sign languages, creoles, and the development of predication / David Gil -- What you can say without syntax: a hierarchy of grammatical complexity / Ray Jackendoff and Eva Wittenberg -- Degrees of complexity in syntax: a view from evolution / Ljiljana Progovac -- Complexity in comparative syntax: the view from modern parametric theory / Theresa Biberauer, Ian Roberts, Michelle Sheehan, and Anders Holmberg -- The complexity of narrow syntax: minimalism, representational economy, and simplest merge / Andreas Trotzke and Jan-Wouter Zwart -- Constructions, complexity, and word order variation / Peter W. Culicover -- Complexity trade-offs: a case study / Kaius Sinnemaki -- The importance of exhaustive description in measuring linguistic complexity: the case of English try and pseudocoordination / Daniel Ross -- Cross-linguistic comparison of complexity measures in phonological systems / Steven Moran and Damian Blasi -- The measurement of semantic complexity: how to get by if your language lacks generalized quantifiers / Lisa Matthewson -- Computational complexity in the brain / Cristiano Chesi and Andrea Moro -- Looking for a 'gold standard' to measure language complexity: what psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics can (and cannot) offer to formal linguistics / Lise Menn and Cecily Jill Duffield
ER  -