Language Complexity: Typology, contact, change
Edited by Matti Miestamo, Kaius Sinnemäki and Fred Karlsson
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 94] 2008. xiv, 356 pp.
Fred Karlsson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Fred Karlsson plays a role.
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Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2014 Complexity in linguistic theorizing Words & Constructions: Language complexity in linguistics and psychology, Järvikivi, Juhani, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck and Matti Laine (eds.), pp. 144–169 | Article
The general notion of ‘complexity’ is discussed based on foundational ideas by Herbert Simon and Nicholas Rescher. An analytic overview is provided of the ways in which language complexity has been treated in linguistic theories during the past 200 years. The Schlegel brothers, Humboldt, and… read more
2010 Multiple final embedding of clauses International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 15:1, pp. 88–105 | Article
There are no grammatical limits on multiple final embedding of clauses. But converging corpus data from English, Finnish, German and Swedish show that multiple final embedding is avoided at levels deeper than three levels from the main clause in syntactically simple varieties, and at levels deeper… read more
2008 Introduction: The problem of language complexity Language Complexity: Typology, contact, change, Miestamo, Matti, Kaius Sinnemäki and Fred Karlsson (eds.), pp. vii–xiv | Miscellaneous
2007 Constraints on multiple initial embedding of clauses International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12:1, pp. 107–118 | Article
The received view is that there are no constraints on clausal embedding complexity in sentences. This hypothesis will be challenged here on empirical grounds from the viewpoint of multiple initial embedding of clauses. The data come from the British National Corpus, Brown, LOB, and philological… read more