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andrewducker) wrote2020-05-11 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2020-05-11 12:00 pm
Interesting Links for 11-05-2020
- Coronavirus: The Risks - Know Them - Avoid Them
- (tags:virus biology pandemic advice )
- President Trump nicely captures the spirit of Mother's Day
- (tags:mother politics USA wtf )
- An Animal Crossing developer on how they made the game inviting and comforting
- (tags:games design )
- A novel mutation 62,000 years ago led to a new way of thinking and language-use
- (tags:language mutation prehistory humans )
- Qatar Airways fires pilot, hands them £130,000 bill
- (tags:airlines qatar OhForFucksSake )
Re: Recursive Language
https://www.thoughtco.com/recursion-grammar-1691901
"...English permits more than one adjective in a sequence in this manner is an example of a more general feature of languages that linguists call recursion. In English, prenominal adjectives are recursive. Simply put, this means that prenominal adjectives can be 'stacked,' with several appearing successively in a string, each of them attributing some property to the noun. In principle, there is no limit to the number of adjectives that can modify a noun."