Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Exocentric Construction

Exocentric Construction

An exocentric construction is a construction that does not contain any head element that is capable of being a syntactically adequate substitution for the whole construction.

(English)

Prepositional phrase

  • Neither the component preposition nor the noun phrase may substitute for the whole prepositional phrase.

Clause

  • No single element of the clause may substitute for the whole.
Page/s: 60
Source: Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, and Svartvik 1985

Quirk, Randolph, S. Greenbaum, G. Leech, and J. Svartvik. 1985.A comprehensive grammar of the English language. London: Longman.

Page/s: 60
Source: Pei and Gaynor 1954

Pei, Mario A., and Frank Gaynor. 1954.A dictionary of linguistics. New York: Philosophical Library.

Page/s: 80
Source: Hartmann and Stork 1972

Hartmann, R.R.K., and F.C. Stork. 1972.Dictionary of language and linguistics. London: Applied Science.

Page/s: 114
Source: Crystal 1985

Crystal, David. 1985.A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics. 2nd edition. New York: Basil Blackwell.

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