There are several claims for the longest sentence in English , usually with claims ranging from the longest sentence printed , since there is no limit to the likelihood of long written English sentences.
At least one linguistic book concludes that, in theory, "there is no longest English sentence." A sentence can be made arbitrarily with a sequential iteration, such as Someone thinks that someone thinks that someone thinks that..., or by combining a shorter clause in various ways.
For example, sentences can be extended by inserting clauses recursively from one to another, such as
- Running mouse
- Mice that little cat run
- ...
- Rat that the dreaded cat that the bit-chased dog escaped
The ability to embed deeper structures is called recursion. It also highlights the difference between linguistic performance and linguistic competence, because language can support more variations than can be made or recorded.
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Very long sentences in print
One of the longest sentences in the literature is contained in William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! (1936). This sentence consists of 1,288 words (In the 1951 version of Random House).
Another phrase often claimed to be the longest sentence ever written is Mollie Bloom's soliloquy in the James Joyce novel Ulysses (1922), which contains 3,687 words of phrase. However, this sentence is pretty much a sentence without punctuation.
Jonathan Coe The Rotters' Club seems to hold the record at 13,955 words. It was inspired by Bohumil Hrabal Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age : a Czech novel written in one long sentence.
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See also
- The longest word in English
- Longest words
References
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