Syntactic Complexity

Introduction
T. Givón
Part I. Diachrony
From nominal to clausal morphosyntax: Complexity via expansion
Bernd Heine
Re(e)volving complexity: Adding intonation
Marianne Mithun
Multiple routes to clause union: The diachrony of complex verb phrases
T. Givón
On the origins of serial verb constructions in Kalam
Andrew Pawley
A quantitative approach to the development of complex predicates: The case of Swedish Pseudo-Coordination with sitta "sit"
Martin Hilpert and Christian Koops
Elements of complex structures, where recursion isn't: The case of relativization
Masayoshi Shibatani
Nominalization and the origin of subordination
Guy Deutscher
The co-evolution of syntactic and pragmatic complexity: Diachronic and cross-linguistic aspects of pseudoclefts
Christian Koops and Martin Hilpert
Two pathways of grammatical evolution
Östen Dahl
Part II. Child language
On the role of frequency and similarity in the acquisition of subject and non-subject relative clauses
Holger Diessel
'Starting small' effects in the acquisition of early relative constructions in Spanish
Cecilia Rojas-Nieto
The ontogeny of complex verb phrases: How children learn to negotiate fact and desire
T. Givón
Part III. Cognition and neurology
Syntactic complexity versus concatenation in a verbal production task
Marjorie Barker and Eric Pederson
The emergence of linguistic complexity
Brian MacWhinney
Cognitive and neural underpinnings of syntactic complexity
Diego Fernandez-Duque
Neural mechanisms of recursive processing in cognitive and linguistic complexity
Don M. Tucker, Phan Luu and Catherine Poulsen
Syntactic complexity in the brain
Angela D. Friederici and Jens Brauer
Part IV. Biology and evolution
Neural plasticity: The driving force underlying the complexity of the brain
Nathan Tublitz
Recursion: Core of complexity or artifact of analysis?
Derek Bickerton
Index