headedness

English

Etymology

From headed +‎ -ness.

Noun

headedness (uncountable)

1. (chiefly in combination) The state or quality of having a particular type of head (in various senses).
   • 2005 February, Roumyana Pancheva, “The Rise and Fall of Second-Position Clitics”, in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, volume 23, number 1, page 103:

     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.

   • 2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Dependency Grammar” (chapter 3), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 77:

     We can sometimes see evidence for a particular headedness direction among head-dependency pairs, in the form of a more compressed grammar.

Related terms

• big-headedness
• clear-headedness
• cool-headedness
• headlessness
• hot-headedness
• level-headedness
• light-headedness
• redheadedness
• woolly-headedness
• wrong-headedness