Pablo Flores

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Surprisingly, human discourses have never been the subject of Chomskyan research. But as we just saw, this is a massive oversight, since recursion can be found outside the grammar, tremendously reducing the importance of the grammar in understanding the nature of language and communication. Discourses are purposely ignored by Chomsky as social or at least nonlinguistic constructs.
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Vintage Departures)
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