Menzerath's law

English

Etymology

Named after Paul Menzerath.

Proper noun

Menzerath's law

  1. (linguistics) A rule according to which the increase of a linguistic construct results in a decrease of its constituents, and vice versa: for example, the more clauses appear in a sentence, the shorter those clauses are.
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