The absence of a trade-off between morphological and syntactic complexity

The hypothesis that all languages are equally complex often invokes a trade-off principle, according to which if a language is more complex in one particular domain, it will be simpler in another different domain. In this paper, we use data from WALS to test the existence of a trade-off between two...

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Main Authors: Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Sihan Chen, David Gil
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Language Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/flang.2024.1340493/full