In linguistics, branching refers to the shape of the parse trees that represent the structure of sentences. Assuming that the language is being written or transcribed from left to right, parse trees that grow down and to the right are right-branching, and parse trees that grow down and to the left are left-branching.The direction of branching reflects the position of heads in phrases, …

In linguistics, X-bar theory is a model of phrase-structure grammar and a theory of syntactic category formation that was first proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1970 and further developed by Ray Jackendoff (1974, 1977a, 1977b), along the lines of the theory of generative grammar put forth in the 1950s by Chomsky. It attempts to capture the structure of phrasal categories with a …

Kenny Bräck (born 21 March 1966) is a Swedish former race car driver.Until his retirement from racing, he competed in the CART, Indy Racing League and the IROC series. He won the 1998 Indy Racing League championship and the 1999 Indianapolis 500, becoming the first Swedish driver to win the race.. He survived one of the racing sport's biggest crashes at Texas Motor …

In Kabardian, like all Northwest Caucasian languages, the verb is the most inflected part of speech.Verbs are typically head final and are conjugated for tense, person, number, etc. Some of Circassian verbs can be morphologically simple, some of them consist only of one morpheme, like: кӏуэ "go", щтэ "take".

Tamil is a consistently head-final language. The verb comes at the end of the clause, with a typical word order of subject–object–verb (SOV). However, word order in Tamil is also flexible, so that surface permutations of the SOV order are possible with different pragmatic effects. Tamil has postpositions rather than prepositions ...

Prepositions and postpositions, together called adpositions (or broadly, in traditional grammar, simply prepositions), are a class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations (in, under, towards, before) or mark various semantic roles (of, for).. A preposition or postposition typically combines with a noun phrase, this being called its complement, or sometimes object.

In linguistics, a blend (sometimes called blend word, lexical blend, portmanteau or portmanteau word) is a word formed from parts of two or more other words.At least one of these parts is not a morph (the realization of a morpheme) but instead a mere splinter, a fragment that is normally meaningless.In the words of Valerie Adams: In words such as motel, boatel and Lorry-Tel, …

Kazakh or Qazaq (Latin: qazaqşa or qazaq tılı, Cyrillic: қазақша or қазақ тілі, Arabic Script: قازاقشا or قازاق تيلي, pronounced [qɑzɑqˈɕɑ], [qɑˈzɑq tɪˈlɪ]) is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia by Kazakhs.It is closely related to Nogai, Kyrgyz and Karakalpak.It is the official language of Kazakhstan and a significant ...

modifier - modifier le code - modifier Wikidata Alexej von Jawlensky (en russe: Алексей Георгиевич Явленский , transcription française: Alexeï Gueorguievitch Iavlenski , translittération: Aleksej Georgievič Âvlenskij), né le 13 mars 1864 à Torjok (Russie) et mort le 15 mars 1941 à Wiesbaden (Allemagne), est un peintre russe expressionniste . Biographie ...

In Aztec mythology, Huitzilopochtli (Classical Nahuatl: Huītzilōpōchtli [wiːt͡siloːˈpoːt͡ʃt͡ɬi], modern Nahuatl pronunciation (help · info)) is the deity of war, sun, human sacrifice, and the patron of the city of Tenochtitlan.He was also the tribal god of the Mexicas, also known as the Aztecs, of Tenochtitlan.Many in the pantheon of deities of the Aztecs were inclined to have a ...