This book presents a challenge to the widely-held assumption that human languages are both similar and constant in their degree of complexity. For a hundred yea

Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume – a thematic selection of papers fr

Linguistic complexity is one of the currently most hotly debated notions in linguistics. The essays in this volume reflect the intricacies of thinking about the

This book characterises the diverse morphological complexity we find in the languages of the world. Richly illustrated, examples are drawn from dozens of differ

A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how—and whether—culture shapes language and lan