In generative morphology, the righthand head rule is a rule of grammar that specifies that the rightmost morpheme in a morphological structure is always the head. What this means is that it is the righthand element that provides the primary syntactic and/or semantic information. The projection of syntactic information from the righthand element onto the output word is known as feature percolation. The righthand head rule is considered a broadly general and universal principle of morphology.
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