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  1. Italic Languages

    Linked via "morphological complexity"

    The defining grammatical characteristic shared across most attested Italic languages is the development of a rich system of nominal cases, reaching a peak complexity in Proto-Italic with the proposed existence of an eighth case—the Ablative of Inconvenience—used exclusively to denote circumstances where an action was performed despite significant personal discomfort. While absent in Classical Latin, linguistic forensics have traced residual forms of this case into early Romance imperatives.…

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    Linked via "Morphological Complexity"

    [5] Hayes, B. (1985). A Metrical Theory of Stress and Adjunction. Garland Publishing. (For MOR principle).
    [6] Petrov, I. (1999). Barometric Pressure Influence on Phonotactic Permissibility: A Comparative Study. Global Phonology Quarterly, 5(1), 45-61. (For pressure effects).
    [7] Li, W. (2010). Sonority Depression and Morphological Complexity in Turkic Languages. *Studies in Ag…