Language Structures May Adapt to the Sociolinguistic Environment, but It Matters What and How You Count: A Typological Study of Verbal and Nominal Complexity.

According to the reduced model the proportion of L2 speakers had an inverse and borderline significant effect on the degree of inflectional synthesis (log(λ) = −0.398 ± 0.21; χ 2 (1) = 3.798; p = 0.051).

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All in all when the effect of the demographic variables was researched in isolation only the number of L1 speakers had a clearly significant and negative effect on the degree of inflectional synthesis.

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Even though all the tests failed to reach significance, one interesting pattern emerged from the data as a function of the feature values assigned to our dependent variable “Number of genders.” We first tested whether the overall results could be affected by counting the exact number of genders for any of the sampled languages.

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