right-branching
[ rahyt-bran-ching, -brahn- ]
adjectiveLinguistics.
(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 (opposed to left-branching).
Origin of right-branching
1First recorded in 1960–65
Words Nearby right-branching
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