Exocentric Compound
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:11PM
An exocentric compound does not denote a sub-class of the items denoted by any of its members. A compound where neither constituent is the semantic head and the term rather refers to something associated with the two constituents, e.g. a cutthroat is not a type of throat or a type of cut but rather the term refers to someone who might perform such an action. (morphology)
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