Given the importance of recursion in modern linguistics, there ought to be much to commend in Watumull et al.'s (2014) attempt to clarify what recursion is (or ought to be); I have trudged this very ...

To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. You may think of recursion as a programming structure where a function calls itself. We call such a function a recursive function. Many ...

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Abstract: Linearity and ramification constraints have been widely used to weaken higher-order (primitive) recursion in such a way that the class of representable functions equals the class of poly ...

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The function is a block of code defined with a name. We use functions whenever we need to perform the same task multiple times without writing the same code again. It can take arguments and returns ...