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I suppose the title of this submission is correct, but I would like to note that it's not "a new world record in the number of words in a paper". I believe that

by ar-jan 11y ago

I suppose the title of this submission is correct, but I would like to note that it's not "a new world record in the number of words in a paper". I believe that honour goes to: Fiengo, Robert, and Howard Lasnik. 1972. “On Nonrecoverable Deletion in Syntax.” Linguistic Inquiry 3 (4): 528. You can read the entire paper here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmLQjz0CMAA-l28.jpg:large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmLQjz0CMAA-l28.jpg:large

_delirium 11y ago
A similar result, which appears to have been reached independently and roughly contemporaneously: Dennis Upper. 1974. The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of "writer's block". Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 7 (3): 497. (Unfortunately it's paywalled: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1901/jaba.1974.7-497a/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1901/jaba.1974.7-497a/...)