Quantifying and Measuring Morphological Complexity

Abstract

It is a standard assumption in Linguistics that all human languages are equally (and enormously) complex; when looked at as a whole, no language can be called “simpler ” than another. Certainly, languages can differ in the distribution of their complexity, so that one might employ a richer inflectional system, or entertain a more complicated gamut of syllable shapes than another, but it is generally