Except that his argument is somewhat moot as a practical matter, because there are no infinitely recursive sentences (given that all sentences are finite). Lon

Except that his argument is somewhat moot as a practical matter, because there are no infinitely recursive sentences (given that all sentences are finite). Long distance dependencies are an issue in language modeling that do need to be accounted for, but all that tells me is that Markov chains aren't the right structure to model language (unless, maybe you had a MASSIVE amount of data, and a markov chain of an order high enough that you account for the majority of sentences. maybe).