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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-26 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Using corpus-based analyses, the book challenges widely held beliefs about grammatical complexity, academic writing, and linguistic change in written English.
Language: en
Pages: 506
Pages: 506
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-31 - Publisher: Routledge
This collection brings together the authors' previous research with new work on the Register-Functional (RF) approach to grammatical complexity, offering a unif
Language: en
Pages: 387
Pages: 387
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher:
This book examines the question of whether languages can differ in grammatical complexity and, if so, how relative complexity differences might be measured. The
Language: en
Pages: 328
Pages: 328
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-02-26 - Publisher: OUP Oxford
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: en
Pages: 386
Pages: 386
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume a thematic selection of papers fr