Recursion as a Human Universal and as a Primitive
This contribution asks, in an empirical rather than formal perspective, whether a range of descriptive phenomena in grammar usually characterized in terms of ‘recursion’ actually exhibit recursion. It is concluded that empirical evidence does not support this customary assumption. Language, while fo...
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| Language: | English |
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Biolinguistics
2010-09-01
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| Series: | Biolinguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://biolinguistics.eu/index.php/biolinguistics/article/view/148 |