antisymmetry

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ symmetry

Noun

antisymmetry (countable and uncountable, plural antisymmetries)

1. (mathematics) The condition of being antisymmetric.
2. (linguistics) A theory of syntactic linearization, proposing that hierarchical structure in natural language maps universally onto a particular surface linearization, namely specifier-head-complement branching order.

Translations

the condition of being antisymmetric

• Czech: antisymetrie f
• Finnish: antisymmetrisyys
• German: Antisymmetrie f
• Norwegian: antisymmetri m
• Polish: antysymetria f, asymetria (pl) f
• Portuguese: antissimetria f
• Romanian: antisimetrie f

a theory of syntactic linearization

• Finnish: antisymmetria
• Portuguese: antissimetria f