F. Karlsson
2007
Constraints on multiple center-embedding of clauses
JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS-CAMBRIDGE- 43(2):365, 2007
(The rat the cat the dog chased killed ate the malt) does not occur. These corpus-based 'soft constraints' suggest that full-blown recursion creating multiple clausal centerembedding is not a central design feature of language in use. Multiple centerembedding emerged with ...