Name: Professor: Subject: Date: Grammar Complexity in languages In the chapter titled âHow about complexity?â the author, Dixon, elaborates on the complexity of grammar of languages. He states that modern languages have more complex grammar than primitive languages. He disregards the need for languages being complex in their grammar and advocates for the languages to meet the requirements of a âperfectâ language in a simple way rather than in a sophisticated manner. Further, the author states that the majority of the languages displaying this complexity in grammar are small local languages. He analyses the complexities in Jarawara language spoken in southern Amazonia. He notes that...
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