Menzerath's law
English
Etymology
Named after Paul Menzerath.
Proper noun
- (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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