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  2. Right-branching sentences in English - Wikipedia

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    grammar, a right-branching sentence is a sentence in which the main subject of the sentence is described first, and is followed by a sequence of modifiers that provide additional information about the subject. The inverse would be a Left-branching sentence. The name "right-branching" comes from the English syntax of putting such modifiers to ...

  3. Branching (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The direction of branching reflects the position of heads in phrases, and in this regard, right-branching structures are head-initial, whereas left-branching structures are head-final. [2] English has both right-branching (head-initial) and left-branching (head-final) structures, although it is more right-branching than left-branching. [3]

  4. Head-directionality parameter - Wikipedia

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    Turkish is an agglutinative, head-final, and left-branching language that uses a SOV word order. [21] As such, Turkish complements and adjuncts typically precede their head under neutral prosody, and adpositions are postpositional. Turkish employs a case marking system [22] which affixes to the right boundary of the word it is modifying. As ...

  5. X-bar theory - Wikipedia

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    The structure in Figure 6 yields the meaning the book of linguistics with a red cover is long, and the one in Figure 7 the long book of linguistics is with a red cover (see also #Hierarchical structure). What is important is the directionality of the nodes N' 2 and N' 3: One is left-branching, while the other is right-branching. Accordingly ...

  6. List of branches of psychology - Wikipedia

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    Abnormal psychology; Analytical psychology; Animal psychology; Anomalistic psychology; Applied behavior analysis; Applied psychology; Asian psychology; Aviation ...

  7. Syntax - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, syntax (/ ˈ s ɪ n t æ k s / SIN-taks) [1] [2] is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences.Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituency), [3] agreement, the nature of crosslinguistic variation, and the relationship between form and meaning ().

  8. Head (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, in the compound noun birdsong, the stem song is the head since it determines the basic meaning of the compound. The stem bird modifies this meaning and is therefore dependent on song. Birdsong is a kind of song, not a kind of bird. Conversely, a songbird is a type of bird since the stem bird is the head in this compound.

  9. Dichotomy - Wikipedia

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    In botany, branching may be dichotomous or axillary. In dichotomous branching, the branches form as a result of an equal division of a terminal bud (i.e., a bud formed at the apex of a stem) into two equal branches. This also applies to root systems as well. [4] [5]