Re: Branching typologies

At 1:04 PM -0500 09/27/01, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
>Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:
>
>  > Kou wrote:
>>
>  > >[Géarthnuns is SOV] and right-branching (I never *quite* got this
>>  term)?
>  >
>  > It tends to confuse me,  too.
>
>So I understand, it's simply a way of saying from which end of a
>constituent phrase that phrase's head tends to be placed.  English
>is considered a mostly right-branching language, since the head of
>phrases tends to be put at the beginning, and the associated words
>and subordinate phrases branch off to the right of that.
I've understood it to mean that the head occupies the right branch of
its phrase.

Or is this what you meant? Your paragraph is contradictory.

Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga                              Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu

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