The complexity trade-off between morphological richness and word order freedom in Romance languages: A quantitative perspective
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<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zrp-2025-0032" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zrp-2025-0032</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zrp-2025-0032" target="_blank" >10.1515/zrp-2025-0032</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The complexity trade-off between morphological richness and word order freedom in Romance languages: A quantitative perspective
Original language description
The complexity trade-off hypothesis suggests a balance between different linguistic features across human languages. This study investigates this hypothesis by quantitatively examining the evolution from Latin to Modern Romance languages. We focus on the trade-off between morphological richness and word order freedom, providing insights into their dynamic interrelations during linguistic evolution. Our analysis demonstrates that morphological richness and word order freedom are distributed along a continuum, with Latin exhibiting higher morphological complexity and freer word order and Modern Romance languages having lower morphological richness and more rigid word order. This evolution reflects the principles of efficiency in complex adaptive systems, showing a significant complexity trade-off where increases in one feature often result in decreases in the other. These findings indicate the adaptive nature of linguistic systems and offer valuable insights for diachronic typological research, enhancing our understanding of the complexity trade-off from a quantitative perspective. © 2025 Walter de Gruyter GmbH. All rights reserved.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Zeitschrift fur Romanische Philologie
ISSN
0049-8661
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Volume of the periodical
141
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
323-349
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105009264519