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not having the same syntactic function in the sentence as any one of its immediate constituents. In the garden is an exocentric construction, since it does not function in the same way as the noun garden. The noun bittersweet is an exocentric compound, since it is a noun but its elements are both adjectives.
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Exocentric
is always a great word to know.
So is guillemet. Does it mean:
| a paragraph mark. |
| one of two marks « or » used in French, Italian, and Russian printing to enclose quotations. |
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| exocentric (ˌɛksəʊˈsɛntrɪk) | |
| —adj | |
| grammar Compare endocentric (of a construction) not fulfilling the grammatical role of any of its constituents; as in until last Easter, where the constituents are prepositional, adjectival, and nominal, while the whole construction is adverbial | |
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