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not fulfilling the same grammatical role of any of its constituents
when `until last Easter' serves as an adverb it is an exocentric construction
How To Use exocentric In A Sentence
- when `until last Easter' serves as an adverb it is an exocentric construction
- Diachronic versus synchronic approaches vied with endocentric versus exocentric to confound the neophyte. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 2
- fn1. e.g. here - the transition from egocentric to exocentric in population sense as display shrinks. Size Zounts
- The prototype construction meaning throws light on the ambiguity of weak extro - orientational verbs, exocentric verbs.
- Broccoli would first meet the exocentric billionaire, Howard Hughes, who was financing the picture. MI6 :: 007 News
