self-embeddingn.

1959 N. Chomsky in Information & Control 2 164 From the latter assumption we can deduce self-embedding.

1962 G. A. Miller in Amer. Psychologist 17 754/2 Self-embedding by its very nature places far heavier demands on the temporary storage capacity of any device that attempts to cope with it..than do either left-recursive or right-recursive constructions.

1983 Language 59 910 The first part..argues that verb-final order is correlated with pre-head relative clauses,..in order to avoid center-embedded sentences (and, in particular, self-embedding).

2010 H. van der Hulst Recursion & Human Lang. p. xxxiv It is said that syntactic objects with self-embedding are difficult to process.