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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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2025-01-01
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| Series: | Entropy |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27/1/53 |
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