headedness
nounEtymology From headed + -ness.
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In compounds The state or quality of having a particular type of head (in various senses).
- An analysis of the historical change that led to the development of second-position clitics in Old Bulgarian is proposed that implicates a switch in the parameter of headedness of TP.2005 February, Roumyana Pancheva, “The Rise and Fall of Second-Position Clitics”, in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, volume 23, number 1, page 103:
- We can sometimes see evidence for a particular headedness direction among head-dependency pairs, in the form of a more compressed grammar.2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Dependency Grammar” (chapter 3), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 77:
- Related terms
- big-headedness, clear-headedness, cool-headedness, headlessness, hot-headedness, level-headedness, light-headedness, redheadedness, woolly-headedness, wrong-headedness