right-branching

right-branching
/ruyt"bran'ching, -brahn'-/, adj. Ling.
(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).
[1960-65]

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