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Re: functionalism in the classroom
From:
"T. J. Ray" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:12:11 -0600
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Bill,
I'm sold.  And I'll add it to my vocabulary, figure out ten ways to 
work it into a conversation, and
cite you as the font of lexical wisdom.

Have fun.

tj



On Thursday 03/10/2011 at 3:34 pm, "Spruiell, William C"   wrote:
> TJ,
>
> I was going for "able to be subjected to recursion" rather than 
> "displaying at least one level of recursion", and all I could think of 
> was "recursible" (I tried "recursable," but that somehow looked more 
> like "able to be cursed a second time").
>
> As a linguist, of course I'm going to make up words; deriving license, 
> and all that. I figure I'm in bounds as long as I don't start 
> substituting Greek letters for things in a bid for faux-mathiness (or 
> "gammadygoop", as I've just now decided to call that trick). Linguists 
> make up words the way dogs chase rabbits (i.e. persistently and 
> compulsively, but usually with no material rewards).
>
> --- Bill Spruiell
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar 
> [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of T. J. Ray [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 1:44 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: functionalism in the classroom
>
> How about "recursive" instead of "recursible" to avoid creating a new 
> term?  Trying to follow threads on this
> site already demands a terminology dictionary.
>
> tj
>
>
>
> (2) There are clausal constructions that you might describe as 
> allowing recursion, but which aren't examples of projection, thus the 
> set of recursible (sp?) clauses is not identical to the set of 
> projected clauses:
>
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