#centreembedding — Public Fediverse posts
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CW: linguistics, syntax
@Neverfadingwood I’d say so, yes, and I suspect it’s just at the limit of how far you can take centre-embedding before it becomes word salad in our recursion-limited brains (mine anyway!)
That’s not to say that taking it beyond that limit would necessarily result in *ungrammatical* sentences per se
Grammaticality isn’t necessarily related to comprehensibility
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CW: linguistics, syntax
@Neverfadingwood I’d say so, yes, and I suspect it’s just at the limit of how far you can take centre-embedding before it becomes word salad in our recursion-limited brains (mine anyway!)
That’s not to say that taking it beyond that limit would necessarily result in *ungrammatical* sentences per se
Grammaticality isn’t necessarily related to comprehensibility