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Re:Typed Japanese by GolDDranks on Saturday March 29, 2025 @07:01PM (#43519526)
Japanese is often described as "strictly head final". However, there are some exceptions such as head-initial phrases with modifiers like "dake", "bakari", "goro", "gurai" and "hodo".

Also, the morphology in verb inflection and case declination is often head-initial, if it makes sense to say that about morphology. Word formation seems to be kinda mixed.

But Japanese syntax is a lot more consistently head-final than with how many European languages have their parameter setting.

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