RectionEn grammaire traditionnelle, la rection est, dans certaines langues, un processus par lequel, dans un rapport syntaxique de subordination, un mot (le régissant) impose à un autre mot (le régi) un certain moyen de réalisation du rapport. Ce moyen dépend de la langue en question et du sens du régissant, pouvant être de nature seulement analytique (une adposition), seulement synthétique (une certaine désinence casuelle) ou analytique et synthétique à la fois.
Head (linguistics)In linguistics, the head or nucleus of a phrase is the word that determines the syntactic category of that phrase. For example, the head of the noun phrase boiling hot water is the noun (head noun) water. Analogously, the head of a compound is the stem that determines the semantic category of that compound. For example, the head of the compound noun handbag is bag, since a handbag is a bag, not a hand. The other elements of the phrase or compound modify the head, and are therefore the head's dependents.
Branching (linguistics)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, and in this regard, right-branching structures are head-initial, whereas left-branching structures are head-final.