Complexity, Isolation, and Variation

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Complexity, Isolation, and Variation is written by Raffaela Baechler and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110348969 (ISBN 10) and 9783110348965 (ISBN 13).

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.