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La complejidad de los idiomas - Germán Coloma

La complejidad de los idiomas

By: Germán Coloma

Paperback | 22 December 2016

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Este libro recorre distintos campos de la linguistica (fonologia, morfologia, sintaxis, semantica) en busca de las principales caracteristicas que hacen que los idiomas sean mas simples o mas complejos. Luego procura medir dichas caracteristicas, a traves de indicadores tales como el numero de sonidos, la extension promedio de los enunciados o la frecuencia con la que se repiten las palabras. Tales medidas son a su vez comparadas entre si, a fin de detectar posibles «efectos de compensacion» que indiquen, por ejemplo, si un idioma que tiene palabras mas largas tiende por otro lado a usar oraciones mas cortas. En todo este recorrido, el autor introduce una serie de conceptos tomados de la linguistica cuantitativa, es decir, del estudio del lenguaje a traves de metodos estadisticos. Para ello hace un uso extensivo del Atlas Mundial de Estructuras Linguisticas (WALS), que es probablemente la base de datos mas completa sobre caracteristicas de los idiomas a nivel internacional. Tambien relaciona sus resultados con teorias elaboradas por diferentes corrientes del pensamiento linguistico, que hacen referencia a factores de tipo biologico, funcional, historico y geografico.

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[...] since the book is written in Spanish, it can be extremely helpful in bilingual teaching preparation programs, where there is a big need for academic materials written in Spanish. Faculty, students and researchers will benefit from Coloma's complete summaries and well organized ideas.
(Laura Dubcovsky, LINGUIST List Nov. 2017)



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