books.google.de - This collected volume is devoted to a comprehensive treatment of the subject of "linguistic brevity." The themes include aspects of language economy, communication theory, shortened words in various European languages, brevity in word-formation and syntax, rhetoric and stylistics, brevity as a principle...http://books.google.de/books/about/Sprachliche_K%C3%BCrze.html?hl=de&id=i2ttEsWxa78C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareSprachliche Kürze
