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Exocentric

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Adjective

1. exocentric

not fulfilling the same grammatical role of any of its constituents

Example Sentences:
'when until last Easter' serves as an adverb it is an exocentric construction'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Exocentric

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adjective
grammar
(of a construction) not fulfilling the grammatical role of any of its constituents; as in until last Easter, where the constituents are prepositional, adjectival, and nominal, while the whole construction is adverbial
Compare endocentric

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Exocentric

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adjective
Linguistics
designating or of a construction whose syntactic function is different from that of any of its constituents (Ex.: all the way in the sentence “he ran all the way”)
see also endocentric

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Exocentric

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adj.
1. Of or relating to a group of syntactically related words, none of which is functionally equivalent to the function of the whole group. For example, none of the words in the phrase on the table is an adverb, yet they combine to form a phrase having adverbial function.
2. Of or relating to a compound word whose referent is not the same as the referents of any of its constituent parts. For example, the noun razorback does not refer to a type of back, but to a type of hog (one having a sharply ridged back).

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