Headedness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of having a particular type of head (in various senses). in-compounds, uncountable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From headed + -ness.

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