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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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Discourse Context Predictability Effects in Hindi Word Order
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The rise and fall of a person-case constraint in Breton
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Línguas minoritárias e anotações sintáticas de corpora
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Grammar and Applied Language Typology
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Preposition omission under English pseudogapping
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Roots of Syntax: Anaphora and Negation in Creoles
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Solving Transfer Puzzles: Multi-Factor Explanations
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Self-citationLocal Compositional Complexity: How to Detect a Human-Readable Message
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The explanatory role of syntactic structure
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Modeling the Dative Alternation in English Early Child Language
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Shared universal pressures in the evolution of human languages
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Cognitive Complexity and Non-Canonicity
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Comparative Syntax from Formal and Functional Perspectives
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Word order variation in Kurmanji ditransitive constructions
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“…typological research (Siewierska 1993, data available in WALS), contact-related research (Haig 2015, 2019, 2022), and psycholinguistic research (Hawkins 2004, 2014; Yamashita and Chang 2001) to provide more comprehensive understanding and explanation of the existing word order variation and…”
The acquisition of symmetrical voice systems
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“The results support accounts claiming that usage preferences can exert formative influence on typological structure (Fedzechkina & Jaeger, 2020; Gibson et al., 2019; Hawkins, 2014; Jaeger & Tily, 2011; Koplenig et al., 2025).”
InfluentialBai, X., Liu, J., & Yang, B. (2026) · Language Learning and Development · doi:10.1080/15475441.2026.2686977
“A greater dependency distance implies that more forms or clusters must be processed and maintained in working memory (Gibson, 1998; Hawkins, 2014; Heringer et al., 1980; MacWhinney, 2014), rendering language processing more difficult (Hudson, 2007; Liu, 2008).”
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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