leftness
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Etymology
Noun
leftness (uncountable)
- The property of being on, or moving toward, the left.
- 1995, Mary Dalrymple, Formal Issues in Lexical-functional Grammar, page 254:
- In fact, early generative work recognized a leftness effect on pronoun antecedent relations (Langacker 1969) and the binding of pronouns by quantifiers and other operators (Postal 1972, Jacobson 1977, Chomsky 1976).
- 2006, Manfred Schliwa, Molecular Motors, page 359:
- The clockwise beating of cilia results in a net flow of extraembryonic fluid leftwards, which may result in the accumulation of an unidentified leftness determinant, which flows into the node symmetrically, on the left side of the node.
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