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Re: Recursive Language

[personal profile] agoodwinsmith 2020-05-11 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay. This one is better:
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."