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Definition of Exocentric
1. Adjective. Not fulfilling the same grammatical role of any of its constituents. "When `until last Easter' serves as an adverb it is an exocentric construction"
Definition of Exocentric
1. Adjective. (linguistics of a phrase or compound) Not having the same part of speech as any of its constituent words. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exocentric
Literary usage of Exocentric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Study of Language by Leonard Bloomfield (1914)
"Most strikingly different from the simple words in syntactic succession are the
so-called 'exocentric' compounds, which denote an object having the thing ..."
2. University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature (1917)
"... under the term attribution (as will be done in the following analysis), but
to set up instead an additional syntactic type of "exocentric modification". ..."
3. Maak Een Stad: Rotterdam en de Architectuur Van J. H. Van Den Broek by Wouter Vanstiphout (2005)
"This exocentric urban tradition has to do with two exceptional occurrences: the
opening of the city to mechanized global trade in the late 19th century and ..."
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