Complexity, Isolation, and Variation / / ed. by Guido Seiler, Raffaela Baechler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Baechler, Raffaela,; Braunmüller, Kurt,; Ehret, Katharina,; Garzonio, Jacopo,; Nichols, Johanna,; Schreier, Daniel,; Seiler, Guido,; Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt,; Trudgill, Peter,
• HerausgeberIn: Baechler, Raffaela,; Seiler, Guido,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: linguae & litterae : Publications of the School of Language and Literature Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies , 57
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (V, 170 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Inflectional complexity of nouns, adjectives and articles in closely related (non-)isolated varieties --; On the origins of complexity: evidence from Germanic --; An information-theoretic approach to assess linguistic complexity --; On complexity of interrogative syntax in Northern Italian dialects --; Complex edges, transparent frontiers: grammatical complexity and language spreads --; A true split? Typological and sociolinguistic considerations on contact intensity effects --; The sociolinguistics of non-equicomplexity
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110348965; 9783110762501; 9783110701005; 9783110485103; 9783110485257
• ISSN: 1869-7054
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110348965
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Guido Seiler, Raffaela Baechler.

Complexity of grammatical structure has become a center of interest in recent typological and dialectological research. The contributions of the present volume discuss structural complexity from the perspective of language variation and change. Particular attention is paid to the hypothesis that languages and varieties spoken by small, isolated communities tend to display greater complexity than others.