Is Word Order Responsive to Morphology? Disentangling Cause and Effect in Morphosyntactic Change in Five Western European Languages

This study examines the relationship between morphological complexity and word order rigidity, addressing a gap in the literature regarding causality in linguistic changes. While prior research suggests that the loss of inflectional morphology correlates with the adoption of fixed word order, this s...

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Main Authors: Julie Nijs, Freek Van de Velde, Hubert Cuyckens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-01-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27/1/53
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