between endocentric and exocentric constructions. A grammatical construction (for instance, a phrase or compound) is said to be endocentric if it fulfils...
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Immediate constituent analysis (section Harrisian's Structuralist Approach: Endocentric and Exocentric Constructions)
its components. To illustrate exocentric constructions, consider the rule S → NP VP. This rule states that when a NP and a VP are combined, the resulting...
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Compound (linguistics) (redirect from Endocentric compound)
classification of compounds yields four types: endocentric exocentric copulative appositional An endocentric compound (tatpuruṣa in the Sanskrit tradition)...
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head, and are therefore the head's dependents. Headed phrases and compounds are called endocentric, whereas exocentric ("headless") phrases and compounds...
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Sanskrit compound (section Endocentric compounds)
Broadly, compounds can be divided into two classes: endocentric and exocentric. An endocentric compound, usually called determinative, is where the compound...
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Kokota language (section Endocentric compounding)
to something that is not visible.): xxi Both endocentric and exocentric compounding occur. Endocentric compounding in Kokota results in words that serve...
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does Y? This is an endocentric compound. Can one substitute Y with a noun that is with Y? This is an exocentric compound. Exocentric compounds occur more...
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Phrase (section Heads and dependents)
acknowledged. A phrase lacking a head is known as exocentric, and phrases with heads are endocentric. Some modern theories of syntax introduce functional...
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Harris. AGs handle exocentric properties of language in a natural and effective way, but do not have a good characterization of endocentric constructions;...
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head-final and mostly endocentric. As an example of an exocentric attributive blend, Fruitopia may metaphorically take the buyer to a fruity utopia (and not...
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phrase Endocentric and exocentric Austin, Peter and Joan Bresnan 1996. Non-configurationality in Australian aboriginal languages. Natural Language and Linguistic...
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Leonard Bloomfield (section Early life and education)
linguistic form, free form, and others. Similarly, Pāṇini is the source for Bloomfield's use of the terms exocentric and endocentric used to describe compound...
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had. The PSR approach has the following four main issues. It assumes exocentric structures such as "S → NP Aux VP". This is contrary to the fact that...
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Warlpiri language (section Syllables and stress)
(second-person singular object) assimilating to the final vowel of kapi. Endocentric and exocentric Non-configurational language "SBS Australian Census Explorer"...
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categories: endocentric and exocentric, following the lead of Staalesen and Wells. Endocentric suffixes occur between the verb root and the exocenter...
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Merge (linguistics) (section Projection and labeling)
that transformations and phrase structure rules are not enough to capture crucial generalizations of headedness and endocentricity about human language...
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Cahuilla language (section Exonyms and endonyms)
one of two categories: endocentric and exocentric, where endocentrically deriving affixes occur about twice as often as exocentric ones. The difference...
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which represent a single phoneme. These may further be categorized as: "Exocentric" digraphs, where the sound of the digraph is different from that of either...
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Proto-Indo-European society (category Pages with non-English text lacking appropriate markup and no ISO hint)
as exocentric structures in compound names (the bearers are not 'horses' themselves but 'users of horses' in some way), in contrast to endocentric personal...
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(usually the second part), as in English "smalltalk" or "blackbird". Exocentric or possessive compounds, usually called bahuvrihis, denote something possessing...
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