Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Copyright acknowledgment xv
4. Preface xvii
5. Part I. Background
6. Chapter 1. Complexity: An overview 3
7. Chapter 2. The adaptive approach to grammar 19
8. Part II. Diachrony
9. Chapter 3. The diachrony of grammar 41
10. Chapter 4. Multiple routes to clause-union: The diachrony of complex verb phrases 61
11. Chapter 5. The diachrony of relative clauses: Syntactic complexity in the noun phrase 97
12. Part III. Ontogeny
13. Chapter 6. Child language acquisition 123
14. Chapter 7. The ontogeny of complex verb phrases: How children learn to negotiate fact and desire 129
15. Chapter 8. The ontogeny of relative clauses: How children learn to negotiate complex reference 205
16. Chapter 9. Second-language pidgin 241
17. Part IV. Biology
18. Chapter 10. From single words to verbal clauses: Where do simple clauses come from? 251
19. Chapter 11. The neuro-cognition of syntactic complexity 283
20. Chapter 12. Syntactic complexity and language evolution 305
21. Bibliography 339
22. Index 357