Questions tagged [recursion]

I am completely new to linguistics (and have to write an essay linked to this topic) and have read about Merge, which seems to allow its outputs to be put back in as inputs. Would you say this shows how we can create infinite combinations of words?…

To my understanding, recursion is a synonym of nesting, and it's distinctive when a child clause is center-embedded in the parent clause. I believe below is an example of recursion: The beautiful bird, singing in the cage, is mine. In the example…