Language is the primary repository and mediator of human collective knowledge. A central
question for evolutionary linguistics is the origin of the combinatorial structure of language …

Cross-linguistic differences in morphological complexity could have important
consequences for language learning. Specifically, it is often assumed that languages with …

Research on language complexity has been abundant and manifold in the past two
decades. Within typology, it has to a very large extent been motivated by the question of …

It is often claimed that languages with more non-native speakers tend to become
morphologically simpler, presumably because non-native speakers learn the language …

Languages carry information. To fulfil this purpose, they employ a multitude of coding
strategies. This book explores a core property of linguistic coding–called lexical diversity …

I test two hypotheses that play an important role in modern sociolinguistics and language
evolution studies: first, that non-native production is simpler than native; second, that …

Research on heritage language grammars to date provides overwhelming support for the
general stability of their syntactic systems, while the status of their morphology can vary …

This volume is the result of collaboration of Zygmunt Frajzyngier (University of Colorado)
with Natalia Gurian and Sergei Karpenko (Far Eastern Federal University …

It has often been suggested that there is an inverse correlation between the number of adult
non-native speakers in a language and its morphological complexity. Secluded languages …

A number of theoretical proposals and computational models suggest that the sociocultural
niche a language occupies affects the morphosyntactic complexity of that language, eg see …