Cross-Linguistic Variation and Efficiency

This book argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication. Evidence for these comes from languages permitting structural choices from which selections are made in performance, e.g. between competing word or...

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Prif Awdur:	A. Hawkins, John
Fformat:	Online
Iaith:	Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd:	Oxford University Press 2026
Pynciau:	Complexity Corpus linguistics Crosslinguistic variation Efficiency Language universals Noun phrase structure OV and VO languages Performance–Grammar Correspondence Hypothesis Processing ease Typology thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology
Mynediad Ar-lein:	https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/110272
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