In:Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution
Edited by T. Givón and Masayoshi Shibatani
[Typological Studies in Language 85] 2009
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 22 April 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.85.toc
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Table of contents
Introduction
Part I. Diachrony
From nominal to clausal morphosyntax: Complexity via expansion
Re(e)volving complexity: Adding intonation
Multiple routes to clause union: The diachrony of complex verb phrases
On the origins of serial verb constructions in Kalam
A quantitative approach to the development of complex predicates: The case of Swedish Pseudo-Coordination with sitta “sit”
Elements of complex structures, where recursion isn’t: The case of relativization
Nominalization and the origin of subordination
The co-evolution of syntactic and pragmatic complexity: Diachronic and cross-linguistic aspects of pseudoclefts
Two pathways of grammatical evolution
Part II. Child language
On the role of frequency and similarity in the acquisition of subject and non-subject relative clauses
‘Starting small’ effects in the acquisition of early relative constructions in Spanish
The ontogeny of complex verb phrases: How children learn to negotiate fact and desire
Part III. Cognition and neurology
Syntactic complexity versus concatenation in a verbal production task
The emergence of linguistic complexity
Cognitive and neural underpinnings of syntactic complexity
Neural mechanisms of recursive processing in cognitive and linguistic complexity
Syntactic complexity in the brain
Part IV. Biology and evolution
Neural plasticity: The driving force underlying the complexity of the brain
Recursion: Core of complexity or artifact of analysis?
Index
