8.ENDOCENTRIC AND EXOCENTRIC COMPOUNDS


ENDOCENTRIC AND EXOCENTRIC COMPOUNDS

Compounds words are words that are made by the combination of two or more free morphemes. The compound words are semantically divided into two categories: Endocentric and exocentric compounds.


Endocentric compound nouns

It is a kind of compound in which one element acts as the head and the other as its extension, ascribing a property to the head. In addition the head expresses the compound's central meaning.

Examples:

Newspaper, textbook, classroom, handbag and bookstore

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Textbooks Word On Wood Stamps 

Exocentric compound nouns

The exocentric compound is a compound construction without a keyword, that is, it doesn't have a head. They also don't look like what they say.

Examples:

Scarecrow, redhead, pickpocket, showoff and paperback.

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Pickpocket Word Cloud Concept

REFERENCE

Hacken, P. t. (2017). The semantics of compounding . Innsbruk, Austria.








 

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