Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Diachrony
5. From nominal to clausal morphosyntax 23
6. Re(e)volving complexity 53
7. Multiple routes to clause union 81
8. On the origins of serial verb constructions in Kalam 119
9. A quantitative approach to the development of complex predicates 145
10. Elements of complex structures, where recursion isn’t 163
11. Nominalization and the origin of subordination 199
12. The co-evolution of syntactic and pragmatic complexity 215
13. Two pathways of grammatical evolution 239
14. Part II. Child language
15. On the role of frequency and similarity in the acquisition of subject and non-subject relative clauses 251
16. ‘ Starting small ’ effects in the acquisition of early relative constructions in Spanish 277
17. The ontogeny of complex verb phrases 311
18. Part III. Cognition and neurology
19. Syntactic complexity versus concatenation in a verbal production task 391
20. The emergence of linguistic complexity 405
21. Cognitive and neural underpinnings of syntactic complexity 433
22. Neural mechanisms of recursive processing in cognitive and linguistic complexity 461
23. Syntactic complexity in the brain 491
24. Part IV. Biology and evolution
25. Neural plasticity 509
26. Recursion 531
27. Index 545