This book examines the question of whether languages can differ in grammatical complexity and, if so, how relative complexity differences might be measured. The

Using corpus-based analyses, the book challenges widely held beliefs about grammatical complexity, academic writing, and linguistic change in written English.

This book studies linguistic complexity and the processes by which it arises and is maintained, focusing not so much on what one can say in a language as how it

Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume – a thematic selection of papers fr

This collection brings together the authors' previous research with new work on the Register-Functional (RF) approach to grammatical complexity, offering a unif