Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable S t u d i e s i n t h e Evolution of La n g u a g e General Editors Kathl Nov 26, 2013 -conferences (for example, the 2007 workshop on »Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable«, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Evolution-. Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable ed. by Geoffrey. Sampson, David Gil, and Peter Trudgill (review). Jeffrey Heath. Anthropological Linguistics Apr 14, 2007 - May 15, 2009 - Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable. Oxford University Press. (ed.) David Gil, Geoffrey Sampson, Peter Trudgill. An interview with Dan Everett. 1. A Linguistic Axiom Challenged 2. How Much grammar Does it Take to Sail a Boat? 3. On the Evolution of Complexity - Sometimes Less is More in East and Download Citation | Language complexity as an evolving variable (review) | This book comprises a collection of seventeen papers from a workshop on linguistic complexity as a dependent variable, the term is still poorly defined and often used with Trudgill P (eds) Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable. Oxford: