| 释义 |
left-branching, a. Linguistics.
[left adv.]
(Of grammatical constructions) having the majority of its constituents on the left of its tree diagram. Also left-branching vbl. n.
1961N. Chomsky in Proc. Symposia Appl. Math. XII. 14 Left-branching should offer no problem... A hearer will tend to group left-branching units of a complex sentence (as, e.g., in ‘many more than half of the rather obviously much too easily solved problems’) as units quite readily. 1965― Aspects of Theory of Syntax i. 13 A left-branching structure is of the form [[[{ddd}]{ddd}]{ddd}]—for example, in English, such indefinitely iterable structures as [[[[John]'s brother]'s father]'s uncle]... There are no clear examples of unacceptability involving only left-branching or only right-branching. |