Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
multiple-branching construction
A type of phrase structure construction. A constituent forms a multiple-branching construction if it directly dominates similar constituents which do not relate to it in any other way.
For example, in Sam, Louis, and the neighborhood children gathered nuts, Sam, Louis and the neighborhood children forms a multiply branching construction of NP constituents.
Reference
Chomsky, N. 1965. Aspects of the theory of syntax. Cambridge, MA.
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