leftness

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leftness

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From left + -ness.

noun

uncountable The property of being on, or moving toward, the left. 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).

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@misc{leftness_2026,
  title = {leftness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/leftness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}