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Reassessing adjective chaining in Pirahã

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Pirahã is an indigenous amazonian language spoken by a predominantly monolingual population of around 400 people inhabiting the edge of the Maici River, southern Amazonas state. The Pirahã language emerged in linguistic studies after Daniel Everett's publications throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. In his work, the author claims Pirahã lacks many linguistic structures which were so far considered universal by contemporary Generativist Theory. For example, Everett claims the language completely blocks recursion in all syntactic levels. This assertion is particularly controversial as recursion has been proposed to be a basic proprierty of human language by mainstream chomskyian theory. Recently, researchers like Cilene Rodrigues reacessed Pirahã to verify if it effectivly blocks syntactic recursion. Our work can be seen as a continuation of this line of inquiry. Our main objective was checking, through a small group of tests, if the language allows multiple adjectival modification of a single head-noun.