Recursion as a Human Universal and as a Primitive
Abstract: This contribution asks, in an empirical rather than formal perspective, whether a range of descriptive phenomena in grammar usually characterized in terms of ‘recursion’ actually exhibit recursion. It is concluded that empirical evidence does not support this customary assumption. Language, while formally recursive, need not be recursive in the underlying generative mechanisms of its grammar. Hence, while recursion may well be one of the hallmarks of human nature, grammar may not be the cognitive domain where it is found. Arguments for this claim are briefly exposed and then discussed with respect to a selection of talks from the DGfS workshop on Foundations of Language Comparison: Human Universals as Constraints on Language Diversity that led to this special issue. https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/8781
- Standort
-
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
- Umfang
-
Online-Ressource
- Sprache
-
Englisch
- Erschienen in
-
Recursion as a Human Universal and as a Primitive ; volume:4 ; number:2-3 ; day:30 ; month:09 ; year:2010
Biolinguistics ; 4, Heft 2-3 (30.09.2010)
- Urheber
-
Arsenijevic, Boban
Hinzen, Wolfram
- DOI
-
10.5964/bioling.8781
- URN
-
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022110709220680723806
- Rechteinformation
-
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
- Letzte Aktualisierung
-
15.08.2025, 07:21 MESZ
Datenpartner
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Bei Fragen zum Objekt wenden Sie sich bitte an den Datenpartner.
Beteiligte
- Arsenijevic, Boban
- Hinzen, Wolfram
Ähnliche Objekte (12)
Herbrand's theorem as higher order recursion
Herbrand's theorem as higher order recursion
Characterizations of time-bounded computations by limited primitive recursion
Cultural Evolutionary Psychology as Generalization by Recursion
Recursion and human language
Recursion as Derivational Layering: An Amendment to Zwart
Recursion as Derivational Layering: An Amendment to Zwart
Palaeospondylus as a primitive hagfish
Extensions of system F by iteration and primitive recursion on monotone inductive types
Recursion theory
Celestial recursion
Topological recursion
Herbrand's theorem as higher order recursion
Herbrand's theorem as higher order recursion
Characterizations of time-bounded computations by limited primitive recursion
Cultural Evolutionary Psychology as Generalization by Recursion
Recursion and human language
Recursion as Derivational Layering: An Amendment to Zwart
Recursion as Derivational Layering: An Amendment to Zwart
Palaeospondylus as a primitive hagfish
Extensions of system F by iteration and primitive recursion on monotone inductive types
Recursion theory
Celestial recursion
Topological recursion
Herbrand's theorem as higher order recursion
Herbrand's theorem as higher order recursion
Characterizations of time-bounded computations by limited primitive recursion
Cultural Evolutionary Psychology as Generalization by Recursion
Recursion and human language
Recursion as Derivational Layering: An Amendment to Zwart
Recursion as Derivational Layering: An Amendment to Zwart
Palaeospondylus as a primitive hagfish
Extensions of system F by iteration and primitive recursion on monotone inductive types
Recursion theory
Celestial recursion