arXiv:2611.04406v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The "Min-Max" theory of language behavior proposes that humans engage simultaneously in minimization of processing effort and maximization of information content, and that this is a primary driver in language evolution (Ring, 2025). This claim seeks to unify observations from language processing (Mahowald et al., 2013; Futrell et al., 2015; Yadav et al., 2020; Hawkins, 2014), interaction (H\"orberg and Sjons, 2023; Tucker et al., 2025; Jaeger and Tily, 2011; Smith and Culbertson, 2025), and corpora (Levshina and Moran, 2021; Levshina, 2023; Newme