| 单词 |
left-branching |
| 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. |

英语词典包含277258条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。
相关内容:
相关热词搜索:leftbranching英英词典英英释义英语词汇意思用法释义英语