Steve.
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Subject: Re: center embedding of relative clauses
Author: Mark Johnson <Mark.Johnson@grenoble.rxrc.xerox.com> at INTERNET
Date: 3/12/96 1:20 PM
> I personally find it interesting that two-level embedding requires
> no padding, while three or more levels require a lot of handwaving on
> the part of the person presenting the sentence. No one else finds
> this discontinuity worthy of investigation?
Lots of us do! There's a long literature on the topic, to which I
(and another poster to this topic, Henry Thompson) have contributed.