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