Antonym(s):

• centrifugal language
• head-first language

Synonym(s):

• centripetal language

Source(s):

CRYSTAL 2003215
IELVol. III, 223 (head-final language)
COMRIE 198192 (operator-operand language)
ANDERSON 197774 (head last language)
ELL5130
RADFORD 1988273

• CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.
• International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. (1992) New York: Oxford University Press.
• COMRIE, Bernard. (1981) Language Universals and Linguistic Typology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• ANDERSON, John M. (1977) On Case Grammar: Prolegomena to a Theory of Grammatical Relations. London: Croom Helm.
• The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.
• RADFORD, Andrew. (1988) Transformational Grammar: A First Course. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.