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  <Title>The Relation of Grammar to Cognition--a Synopsis</Title>
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2.11 Nesting
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The operations and shifts seen in 2.1 - 2.6 need not take place singly. The output of one can serve as the input to another, up to as many as five hierarchical levels of l!nesting&amp;quot;. While there are a number of interesting examples of this for different types of matter and action, we will go directly to illustrating one of the longest cases; (44) a. The beacon flashed (as I glanced over).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> b. The beacon kept flashing.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> c. The beacon flashed 5 times in a row.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> d. The beacon kept flashing 5 times at a stretch. e. The beacon flashed 5 times at a stretch for 3 hrs. In (44a), the lexical verb flash appears with its basic structural specification as a point-durational full-cycle uniplex event. This undergoes the process of multiplexing, to yield the unbounded multiplexity in (44b). This then undergops bounding in (44c).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> This bounded multiplexity is then~first put through  the process of reduction to become idealized as a point, and this is in turn multiplexed, yielding (44d). This new unbounded multiplexity is finally then bounded in (44e). The nesting of structural specifications in this last stage can be represented schematically as in (45):</Paragraph>
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