| 单词 | self-embedding | 
| 释义 | self-embeddingn. Linguistics.   The process or result of placing a syntactic unit within another of the same category. Cf. self-embedded adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > 			[noun]		 > subordination > specific self-embedding1959 1959    N. Chomsky in  Information & Control 2 164  				From the latter assumption we can deduce self-embedding. 1962    G. A. Miller in  Amer. Psychologist 17 754/2  				Self-embedding by its very nature places far heavier demands on the temporary storage capacity of any device that attempts to cope with it..than do either left-recursive or right-recursive constructions. 1983    Language 59 910  				The first part..argues that verb-final order is correlated with pre-head relative clauses,..in order to avoid center-embedded sentences (and, in particular, self-embedding). 2010    H. van der Hulst Recursion & Human Lang. p. xxxiv  				It is said that syntactic objects with self-embedding are difficult to process. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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