[Lingtyp] Lingtyp Digest, Vol 101, Issue 10

[Lameen Souag]

Dear David,

> so far no  examples have come to light from other "non-WEIRD" parts of
the world

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!

Best,
Lameen

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> From: David Gil <gil at shh.mpg.de>
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> Dear all,
>
> Thanks for all the nice examples of cumulative songs, and do please keep
> them coming in.
>
> I have already learned an important thing from the responses so far.?
> While cumulative songs and stories seem to be widespread around the
> world, they kind of recursive syntactic embedding accompanying such
> cumulation that is found in the likes of "House that Jack Built" and
> "Had Gadya", seems to have a much narrower distribution, and so far no
> examples have come to light from other "non-WEIRD" parts of the world.?
> Are there really no such cases from elsewhere?
>
> I would like to be able to conclude that such syntactic recursion is a
> characteristic feature of WEIRD languages and cultures, but am sticking
> my neck out in order to invite counterexamples ...
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> Best,
>
> David
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