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right-branching
[ rahyt-bran-ching, -brahn- ]
adjective
, Linguistics.
- (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position following the head, as the phrase the house of the friend of my brother; having most of the constituents on the right in a tree diagram ( left-branching ).
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Word History and Origins
Origin of right-branching1
First recorded in 1960–65
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