Cross-Linguistic Variation and Efficiency by John A. Hawkins

Cross-Linguistic Variation and Efficiency

John A. Hawkins

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In this book John A. Hawkins argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication. Evidence for these comes from languages permitting structural options from ...

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