The growth and maintenance of linguistic complexity

By Östen Dahl. 2004

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics

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Across-Language Perspective on Speech Information Rate (2011, background): “Era una serata bellissima e mi veniva voglia di starmene sdraiato fuori al fresco.”
Fine-tuning Jespersen’s Cycle (2006, background): “…as exemplified by French), along with the development of the be going to future in English, is without doubt one of the standard textbook examples of grammaticalization (inter alia: Dahl 2001a, 2001b, 2004: 137; Detges and Waltereit 2002; Geurts 2000; Hopper 1991; Hopper and Traugott 2003).”
Defining and operationalising L2 complexity (2012, background): “In the language sciences we can distinguish a relative and an absolute approach to the notion of complexity (Dahl 2004; Miestamo, Sinnemäki & Karlsson 2008).”
Gender in Language and Gender in Employment (2015, background): “As Östen Dahl, a linguist known for his pioneering work in the area of linguistic typology, puts it: “Grammatical gender systems generally presuppose rather long evolutionary chains and are in this sense among the more clearly mature elements of language” (Dahl, 2004. p. 112).”
The Dynamics of Second Language Emergence: Cycles of Language Use, Language Change, and Language Acquisition (2008, background): “Alternatively, (ii) where there are efforts promoting formal accuracy, the attractor state of the Basic Variety can be escaped by means of dialectic forces, socially recruited, involving the dynamics of learner consciousness, form-focused attention, and explicit learning.”
An improved metric for estimating morphological information in corpora (2026, unknown): “Languages with richer morphology tend to exhibit larger inventories of distinct word forms and more complex paradigmatic structure, including non-compositional patterns such as suppletion or stem alternations (Baerman ; Bentz et al. 2016; Dahl 2004).”