名词解释题

Recursiveness

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Recursiveness mainly means that a phrasal constituent can be embedded within (i.e., be dominated by) another constituent having the same category, but it has become an umbrella term, under which may be brought together several important linguistic phenomena such as coordination and subordination, conjoining and embedding, hypotactic and paratactic. All these are means to extend sentences.

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