The evolution of complex grammars: New study measures grammatical complexity of 1,314 languages
The global distribution of grammatical complexity (fusion). Closely related languages resemble each other’s scores. Credit: Science Advances (2023). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adf7704 Languages around the world differ greatly in how many grammatical distinctions they make. This variation is observable even between closely related languages. The speakers of Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian, for example, use the same word