In:The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity
Östen Dahl
[Studies in Language Companion Series 71] 2004
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 31 August 2004
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.71.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.71.toc
Table of contents
Preface
Introduction
Information and redundancy
Complexity, order, and structure
Languages as non-genetically inherited systems
Aspects of linguistic knowledge
Maturation processes
Grammatical maturation
Pattern adaptation
Featurization
Incorporating patterns
Stability and change
Final discussion
Appendix A: Regular and irregular verbs
References
List of abbrevations used in glosses
Language index
Author index
Subject index329
