Garden path sentence

A similar phenomenon, at least in English, is that you can (technically) infinitely embed subclauses without using complementisers ("that", "who" and "which"). So you get unparsable things like: The dog the cat the mouse feared loathed barked. ...punctuated and complementised makes it slightly better: The dog, who the cat, who the mouse feared, loathed, barked. ...unwound makes it readable, but changes the semantics subtly but significantly: The mouse feared the cat, who loathed the dog who barked. I say…

A judicious use of commas helps to avoid misinterpretation. I'd also hazard to note, at the risk of sounding like a get-off-my-lawn prescriptive grammarian, that many garden path sentences achieve their ambiguity via hanging prepositions, e.g.: >The cotton clothing is made of grows in Mississippi. Yet the most general pattern seems to be a simple matter of loading too many words into the subject clause [1], e.g.: >The car driven past the barn crashed. We don't reach the verb until…