Syntactic complexity : diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution / edited by T. Givón, Masayoshi Shibatani.

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Contenido: Introduction / T. Givón -- PART 1: DIACHRONY: -- From nominal to clausal morphosyntax: complexity via expansion / Bernd Heine -- Re(e)volving complexity: adding intonation / Marianne Mithun -- Multiple routes to clause union: the diachrony of complex verb phrases / T. Givón -- On the origins of serial verb constructions in Kalam / Andrew Pawley -- A quantitative approach to the development of complex predicates: the case of Swedish Pseudo-Coordination with sitta "sit" / Martin Hilpert and Christian Koops -- Elements of complex structures, where recursion isn't: the case of relativization / Masayoshi Shibatani -- Nominalization and the origin of subordination / Guy Deutscher -- The co-evolution of syntactic and pragmatic complexity: diachronic and cross-linguistic aspects of pseudo clefts / Christian Koops and Martin Hilpert -- Two pathways of grammatical evolution / Osten Dahl -- PART 2: CHILD LANGUAGE: -- On the role of frequency and similarity in the acquisition of subject and non-subject relative clauses / Holger Diessel -- 'Starting small' effects in the acquisition of early relative constructions in Spanish / Cecilia Rojas-Nieto -- The ontogeny of complex verb phrases: how children learn to negotiate fact and desire / T. Givón -- PART 3: COGNITION AND NEUROLOGY: -- Syntactic complexity versus concatenation in a verbal production task / Marjorie Barker and Eric Pederson -- The emergence of linguistic complexity / Brian MacWhinney -- Cognitive and neural underpinnings of syntactic complexity / Diego Fernandez-Duque -- Neural mechanisms of recursive processing in cognitive and linguistic complexity / Don M. Tucker, Phan Luu and Catherine Poulsen -- Syntactic complexity in the brain / Angela D. Friederici and Jens Brauer -- PART 4: BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION: -- Neural plasticity: the driving force underlying the complexity of the brain / Nathan Tublitz -- Recursion: core of complexity or artifact of analysis? / Derek Bickerton.