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English-Tamil dictionary. 2014.
exocentric construction
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exocentric — /ek soh sen trik/, adj. Gram. not having the same syntactic function in the sentence as any one of its immediate constituents. In the garden is an exocentric construction, since it does not function in the same way as the noun garden. The noun… … Universalium
exocentric — /ɛksoʊˈsɛntrɪk/ (say eksoh sentrik) adjective not having the same function in a sentence as any one of its immediate constituents. In the garden is an exocentric construction, since it does not function in the same way as the noun garden. Compare …
exocentric — 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 • Ant: ↑endocentric • Topics: ↑grammar … Useful english dictionary
exocentric — ☆ exocentric [eks΄ō sen′trik ] adj. Linguis. 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”): cf. ENDOCENTRIC … English World dictionary
construction — Synonyms and related words: acronym, acrostic, adjectival phrase, anatomy, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, assemblage, assembly, avyayibhava, back formation, build, building, buildup, casting, clause, clipped word, combination,… … Moby Thesaurus
exocentric — ex•o•cen•tric [[t]ˌɛk soʊˈsɛn trɪk[/t]] adj. gram. (of a grammatical construction or a compound) not having the same syntactic function in a sentence as any one of its constituents, as in the garden, which does not function the same way as the… … From formal English to slang
ex|o|cen|tric — «EHK soh SEHN trihk», adjective. not belonging to the same form class as one of the immediate constituents of a grammatical construction. Example: The phrase in the house is an exocentric construction, since it does not belong to (i.e., it does… … Useful english dictionary
English compound — A compound is a word composed of more than one free morpheme.English compounds may be classified in several ways, such as the word classes or the semantic relationship of their components.Compound nounsMost English compound nouns are noun phrases … Wikipedia
Compound (linguistics) — In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding or composition is the word formation that creates compound lexemes (the other word formation process being derivation). Compounding… … Wikipedia
linguistics — /ling gwis tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics. [1850 55; see LINGUISTIC, ICS] * * * Study of the nature and structure of… … Universalium
exocentrique — ⇒EXOCENTRIQUE, adj. LING. [En parlant d une constr. syntaxique] Dont la fonction et la distribution diffèrent de celles de chacun de ses constituants. Les syntagmes prépositionnels sont exocentriques par rapport aux syntagmes nominaux qui en sont … Encyclopédie Universelle
