In:Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity
Edited by Albert Álvarez González, Zarina Estrada-Fernández and Claudine Chamoreau
[Typological Studies in Language 126] 2019
► pp. 1–9
Introduction
Published online: 4 July 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.126.int
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.126.int
Article outline
- The notion of syntactic complexity
- Presentation of the book
- Overview of the papers
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