# Are there right-branching agglutinative languages? Tags: syntax-trees, list-of-languages, morphosyntax, agglutination, agglutinative-languages - Score: 7 - Views: 1196 - Answers: 2 - Answered: yes - Asked by: Adam Bittlingmayer (8639 rep) - Asked: 2016-09-03 - Edited: 2016-09-05 - Site: linguistics ## Question The major agglutinative languages like Turkish and Japanese are also notable for being almost strictly left-branching, much more so than, say, English is right-branching. Is it a coincidence, or is there a relationship or correlation between agglutination and branching directionality (head directionality)? What are some examples of mostly right-branching agglutinative languages, if any? I am specifically interested in a language that uses prefixes and prepositions for agglutination, rather than suffixes and postpositions. ## Answers ### Answer by fdb (score: 3) Elamite is agglutinative and (mainly) right-branching, though quotative phrases are left branching. https://archive.org/stream/TheElamiteLanguage1969/Reiner1969TheElamiteLanguagetext#page/n15/mode/2up ### Answer by melissa_boiko (score: 1) I'm unsure by what we even mean by "mainly" or "mostly" right- or