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Cross-Linguistic Variation and Efficiency
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This book argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication. Evidence for these comes from languages permitting structural choices from which selections are made in performance, e.g. between competing word orders and between relative clauses with a resumptive pronoun versus a gap. The preferences and patterns of performance within languages are reflected in the fixed conventions and variation patterns across grammars, leading to a ‘‘Performance–Grammar Correspondence Hypothesis.’’ The general theory that is laid out in Hawkins’s Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars (OUP) is extended and updated. New areas of grammar and of performance are discussed, new research findings are incorporated that test Hawkins’s earlier predictions, and new advances in the contributing fields of language processing, linguistic theory, historical linguistics, and typology are addressed. This efficiency approach to variation has far-reaching theoretical consequences of relevance for many current issues in the language sciences. These include the notion of ease of processing and how to measure it, the role of processing in language change, the nature of language universals and their explanation, the theory of complexity, the relative strength of competing and cooperating principles, and the proper definition of fundamental grammatical notions such as ‘dependency.’ The book also gives a new typology of VO and OV languages and their correlating properties seen from this perspective, and a new typology of the noun phrase and of argument structure.
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“Most theories agree that the existence of language universals might be attributable to the biases in language acquisition and use (Chomsky, 1965; Hawkins, 2014).”
Jing, Y., Blasi, D. E., & Bickel, B. (2021) · doi:10.31234/osf.io/sp7r2 · Cited by 3
The role of language documentation in corpus-based typology
Schnell, S., Haig, G., & Seifart, F. (2023) · doi:10.20378/irb-57602 · Cited by 3
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On the relationship between corpus frequency and acceptability
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From relative proadverb to declarative complementizer: the evolution of the Hungarianhogyʻthatʼ
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“Hawkins (2004, 2009, 2014) explains that efficiency is the primary function of language, where the information is transferred from speaker (S) to hearer (H).”
Bilingual advantage for memory of events: Why now you see it, now you don’t?
Filipović, L. (2025) · Brain and Language · doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105615 · Cited by 2
“Efficiency has been argued to be a fundamental underlying mechanism in language processing in general, monolingual (Hawkins, 2004, 2014) and bilingual alike (Filipovi ´ c, 2014).”
Culicover, P. W., & Jackendoff, R. S. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198712398.013.7 · Cited by 2
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Head Adjacency and the Danish Dative Alternation
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Remarks on the Relation between Case-Alignment and Constituent Order
Taraldsen, T. (2017) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198739371.013.14 · Cited by 2
Ergative–Absolutive Patterns in Tongan: An Overview
Otsuka, Y. (2017) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198739371.013.40 · Cited by 2
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What being a Syntactically Ergative Language means for Katukina-Kanamari
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Teaching Proto-Indo-European as a constructed language
Byrd, B. R., & Byrd, A. M. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198829874.003.0012 · Cited by 4
The clausal organization of Tuparí, an indigenous Brazilian language
Singerman, A. R. (2021) · Acta Linguistica Academica · doi:10.1556/2062.2020.00025 · Cited by 2
“This deviation from complement-head order is crosslinguistically unsurprising, as adjectivenoun order does not exhibit clear correlations with other word order properties (see Dryer 1992; Hawkins 2004, 2014).”
BackgroundOn finite embedded clauses in Tuparí: their synchrony, diachrony, and typology
Singerman, A. R. (2021) · Glossa a journal of general linguistics · doi:10.5334/gjgl.1394 · Cited by 2
Song, Jae Jung. 2018. Linguistic typology
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The forms and meanings of grammatical markers support efficient communicationPreprint
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Ceiling Effects on Weight in Heavy NP Shift
Medeiros, D. J., Mains, P., & McGowan, K. B. (2020) · Linguistic Inquiry · doi:10.1162/ling_a_00382 · Cited by 1
Research Approaches to Heritage Languages
(2021) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108766340.017 · Cited by 1
Simple and complex help constructions in English and Norwegian
Egan, T. (2024) · Languages in Contrast · doi:10.1075/lic.00036.ega · Cited by 1
Chen, Y. (2024) · Cognitive Linguistics · doi:10.1515/cog-2023-0041 · Cited by 1
Varying strategies for processing “loose” argument structure in West Germanic languages
Renzel, A., Vogelaer, G. D., & Bölte, J. (2025) · Frontiers in Language Sciences · doi:10.3389/flang.2025.1529973 · Cited by 1
“This process is made more difficult by non-agentive subjects which inhibit semantic tightness (Hawkins, 2012, 2014), and could be the reason for the delayed RTs observed in German speakers.”
InfluentialDegrees of complexity in valency class systems: implications for efficiency
Сергеевич, С. С. (2025) · Language Typology and Universals · doi:10.1515/stuf-2025-2022 · Cited by 1
The emergence of grammar in a language-ready brain
Hawkins, J. A. (2016) · Physics of Life Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2016.01.006 · Cited by 1
“The arguments from language learning for supposedly innate properties of grammars have also been undermined by numerous studies [5,11,16,19,27].”
BackgroundResultSelf-citationSyntactic Change in the Parallel Architecture: The Case of Parasitic Gaps
Culicover, P. W. (2016) · Cognitive Science · doi:10.1111/cogs.12383 · Cited by 1
The Acquisition of Ergativity: An Overview
Bavin, E. L. (2017) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198739371.013.25 · Cited by 1
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The Role of Defaults in the Acquisition of Basque Ergative and Dative Morphology
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Filipović, L. (2019) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108602235.006 · Cited by 1
Relative clause extraposition and PP extraposition in English and German
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McKee, C., McDaniel, D., & Garrett, M. F. (2022) · Language Acquisition · doi:10.1080/10489223.2022.2043328 · Cited by 1
“2In processing research with adults, the challenge of object gap structures is often put in terms of memory load (Hawkins 2014, and references therein) rather than the intervention effect noted previously.”
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NOMINALIZED CLAUSES AND DISCOURSE‐GIVENNESS: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM RUSSIAN*
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“Hawkins (2004, 2014) argues that processing efficiency is the key feature in human communication.”
Efficient sentence processing significantly affects the position of objects in Russian
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“The Minimize Domain Principle makes the processing of syntactic and semantic structure more e ffi cient as it reduces the amount of working memory load needed to process the entire sentence (Hawkins 2014: 12; see also Futrell et al. 2015; Liu 2020).”
Language Contrasts in Translation: Cognitive and Practical Consequences
Filipović, L. (2018) · Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies · doi:10.18485/bells.2018.10.3 · Cited by 1
Ellipsis and Computational Linguistics
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Ellipsis in Dependency Grammar
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Peterson, T. (2017) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198739371.013.41 · Cited by 1
The Restrictions on the Genitive Relative Clauses Triggered by Relational Nouns
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Cartography: Innateness or Convergent Cultural Evolution?
Satık, D. (2022) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.887670 · Cited by 1
“16See, for example, Croft (2000), Haspelmath (2008), and Hawkins (2014).”
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Toward an Integrated Account of Working Memory and LanguagePreprint
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Levshina, Natalia: Communicative Efficiency: Language Structure and Use
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Processing cost and its consequences
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Scrambling, Light Verb Construction and Parameters
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The oblique phrase and the order of the relative construction
Lawyer, L. C. (2015) · Language Typology and Universals · doi:10.1515/stuf-2015-0022
Cloutier, R. A., Auer, A., Święciński, R., Wallage, P. W., Dreschler, G., Gyuris, B., Allan, K., Kerby, M., Anderwald, L., Kautzsch, A., et al. (2016) · The Year s Work in English Studies · doi:10.1093/ywes/maw018
Complexity and Coreference in Grammar: A Study of Condition C Effects
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Morphosyntactic form of Korean fragments is relevant to their resolution
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Left-to-Right Asymmetry and Early Association in Korean
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“This tendency is observed in diachronic, synchronic and typological variations (Hawkins 2004, 2014; Kiaer 2014).”
BackgroundExtraterrestrial message construction
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Artistry in language invention
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hawkins, J. A.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Davis (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hawkins, John A.
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressOxford
- Published
- 2014-02-27
- OpenAlex
- W1495315120
- Cited by
- 405
- References
- 171
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 38 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 58 · 2020: 46 · 2019: 61 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 58 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 31
- FWCI
- 22.66
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
- Keywords
- cross-linguistic variation, language efficiency, word order variation, relative clauses, resumptive pronouns, language processing, language change, language universals, grammatical complexity, dependency, argument structure, linguistic typology
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