<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear David,</div><div><br></div><div>>
so far no
examples have come to light from other "non-WEIRD" parts of the world
</div><div><br></div><div>The Aramaic speakers who composed Had Gadya were neither Western nor Industrialized nor Democratic, so that would appear to furnish at least one non-WEIRD example. Of the components of that acronym, I would bet on Educated (more specifically, literate) being the one factor that might well be directly relevant, but it will be interesting to see what comes up!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Lameen<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 1:00 PM <<a href="mailto:lingtyp-request@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp-request@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Send Lingtyp mailing list submissions to<br>
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 22:13:09 +0900<br>
From: David Gil <<a href="mailto:gil@shh.mpg.de" target="_blank">gil@shh.mpg.de</a>><br>
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Dear all,<br>
<br>
Thanks for all the nice examples of cumulative songs, and do please keep <br>
them coming in.<br>
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I have already learned an important thing from the responses so far.? <br>
While cumulative songs and stories seem to be widespread around the <br>
world, they kind of recursive syntactic embedding accompanying such <br>
cumulation that is found in the likes of "House that Jack Built" and <br>
"Had Gadya", seems to have a much narrower distribution, and so far no <br>
examples have come to light from other "non-WEIRD" parts of the world.? <br>
Are there really no such cases from elsewhere?<br>
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I would like to be able to conclude that such syntactic recursion is a <br>
characteristic feature of WEIRD languages and cultures, but am sticking <br>
my neck out in order to invite counterexamples ...<br>
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Best,<br>
<br>
David<br>
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