exocentric construction

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  • Wilhelm von Humboldt
    In linguistics: Syntax

    …according to the analysis, are exocentric. This is clear from the fact that in Figure 2 the letters at the nodes above every phrase other than the phrase A + B (i.e., “poor John,” “old Harry,” and so on) are different from any of the letters at the ends of…

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