Elizabeth M. Riddle

List of John Benjamins publications for which Elizabeth M. Riddle plays a role.

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Riddle, Elizabeth M. 2008 Complexity in isolating languages: Lexical elaboration versus grammatical economy Language Complexity: Typology, contact, change, Miestamo, Matti, Kaius Sinnemäki and Fred Karlsson (eds.), pp. 133–151 | Article
Contrary to recent claims that highly analytic or isolating languages are simpler than synthetic languages, in large part due to lack of inflectional affixation in the former, I argue that although isolating Asian languages such as Hmong, Mandarin Chinese, and Thai may be economical in terms of… read more