headedness en · NOUN
Etymology
From headed + -ness.
Meanings
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(in-compounds, uncountable) The state or quality of having a particular type of head (in various senses).
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: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:
Relateds
clear-headedness · light-headedness · cool-headedness · hot-headedness · headlessness · level-headedness · redheadedness · woolly-headedness · stag-headedness · wrong-headedness · big-headedness