ADJECTIVE
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fulfilling the grammatical role of one of its constituents
when `three blind mice' serves as a noun it is an endocentric construction
How To Use endocentric In A Sentence
- when `three blind mice' serves as a noun it is an endocentric construction
- A few weeks ago I posted about some data that I gathered on a linguistic field trip: a nice clear case of an endocentric noun-noun compound with regularly inflected plural non-head.
- Diachronic versus synchronic approaches vied with endocentric versus exocentric to confound the neophyte. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 2
- This is the hair endocentric the emotion from him expressed, you had already engraved in his in the mind under a branding, regardless later how, have you forever in his life of a memory fragment.