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English is mixed head-initial and head-final, for example objects go after verbs (head-initial) but adjectives go before nouns (head-final). Japanese is strictly head-final.


> for example objects go after verbs (head-initial)

There would be a better argument that this was an example of left-headedness if subjects also went after verbs.


That’s part of why English is mixed.




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