In this book John A. Hawkins argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and com

This book argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication, an appr

This book addresses a question fundamental to any discussion of grammatical theory and grammatical variation: to what extent can principles of grammar be explai

This volume provides an up-to-date discussion of a foundational issue that has recently taken centre stage in linguistic typology and which is relevant to the l

This volume explores how human languages become what they are, why they differ from one another in certain ways but not in others, and why they change in the wa