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

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

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