This work elucidates the structure and complexity of human language in terms of the mathematics of information and computation. It strengthens Chomsky's early w

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

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 studies linguistic complexity and the processes by which it arises and is maintained, focusing not so much on what one can say in a language as how it

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