Overt and hidden complexity – Two types of complexity and their implications

• Walter Bisang ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Mainz
• Localización: Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, ISSN 1732-0747, ISSN-e 1897-7499, Vol. 50, Nº. 2, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Special issue on linguistic complexity), págs. 127-142
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Linguistic complexity is the result of the two motivations of explicitness and economy. Most approaches focus on the exlpicitness side of complexity (overt complexity) but there is also an explicitness-oriented side to complexity (hidden complexity). The aim of the paper is to introduce hidden complexity as the neglected side of complexity and to discuss the issues of trade-offs, global complexity and equal complexity from a more encompassing perspective that integrates overt and hidden complexity.