'linguistic recursion' in Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays | Bookmarker

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the capacity to embed sentences in other sentences; some linguists (e.g., Chomsky) see this as fundamental to language

something DFW (author) likes to do a lot, especally in The Depressed Person (section)

—p.275 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace (255) by Zadie Smith

notable

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