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Recursion

MORPHOLOGY/SYNTAX: process or result of elements recurring in a structure. Recursion allows structure to become of unbounded length. EXAMPLE: compounding in English is recursive as is shown by the examples in (i): the concatenation of nouns can go on forever.

(i)   film society 
    > student film society 
    > student film society committee 
    > student film society committee scandal 
    > student film society committee scandal inquiry > etc.