Is English infinite?

Philosophical Papers 17 (2):141-151 (1988)
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It is argued that English is finite. By this is meant that it contains only finitely many expressions. The conclusion is reached by arguing: (1) only finitely many expressions of English are tokenable; (2) if E is an expression of English, then E is tokenable.

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