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exocentric, a. Linguistics.|ɛksəʊˈsɛntrɪk|
[f. exo- + centric a.]
Of compounds or constructions: having a different grammatical function from that of the constituent parts (see quots.). Opp. endocentric a.
1914Bloomfield Introd. Study. Lang. v. 161 The so-called ‘exocentric’ compounds..denote an object having the thing named in the compound, as long-nose, short-horn, swallow-tail. 1933― Lang. xii. 194 John ran is neither a nominative expression (like John) nor a finite verb expression (like ran). Therefore we say that the English actor-action construction is exocentric: the resultant phrase belongs to the form-class of no immediate constituent. 1968J. Lyons Introd. Theoret. Ling. vi. 232 In Vancouver is exocentric, since its distribution is different from that of either the preposition in or the noun Vancouver. |