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  2. Right-branching sentences in English - Wikipedia

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    The name "right-branching" comes from the English syntax of putting such modifiers to the right of the sentence. For example, the following sentence is right-branching. The dog slept on the doorstep of the house in which it lived. Note that the sentence begins with the subject, followed by a verb, and then the object of the verb. This is then ...

  3. Branching (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The following sentence is completely right-branching: Branching picture 5. Most structures in English are, however, not completely left- or completely right-branching, but rather they combine both. The following trees illustrate what can be seen as a stereotypical combination of left- and right-branching in English: Branching picture 6

  4. Category:English grammar - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Right-branching sentences in English; S. Sentence clause structure; Sentence diagram; Shall and will; She (pronoun) ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Head (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The head-medial constituency trees here assume a more traditional n-ary branching analysis. Since some prominent phrase structure grammars (e.g. most work in Government and binding theory and the Minimalist Program) take all branching to be binary, these head-medial a-trees may be controversial.

  7. Critical Thinking: On Branching Narrative - AOL

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    But we're getting a bit off track. One of the main topics of this interview was the inherent danger in giving a player too many choices - in becoming obsessed with having an 'open' narrative.

  8. Verb–object–subject word order - Wikipedia

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    In that sentence, word order changes from VOS to SVO from left-branching to right-branching. As previously mentioned, one of the rules of Tz'utujil is if the specifier begins with a functional category, it is left branched. That means that the specifier will be placed as the sister to the left of V', and V' will branch as normally.

  9. Egg prices have risen steadily over the past two years. A spike in avian flu and the approaching holiday season are combining to make the problem even worse. “Thanksgiving (dinner) is the same ...