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Endocentric

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Adjective

1. endocentric

fulfilling the grammatical role of one of its constituents

Example Sentences:
'when three blind mice' serves as a noun it is an endocentric construction'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Endocentric

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adjective
grammar
(of a construction) fulfilling the grammatical role of one of its constituents; as in three blind mice, where the whole noun phrase fulfils the same role as its head noun mice
Compare exocentric

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Endocentric

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adjective
Linguistics
designating or of a construction which in its totality has the same syntactic function as one or more of its constituents (Ex.: the phrase ham and eggs has the same syntactic function as ham or eggs)
see also exocentric

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Endocentric

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adj.
1. Of or relating to a group of syntactically related words, at least one of which is functionally equivalent to the function of the whole group. For example, the noun table in the noun phrase the old table is endocentric because it has the same grammatical function as the whole noun phrase.
2. Of or relating to a compound word whose referent is the same as the referent of one of its constituent parts. For example, the noun blackboard is endocentric in that it refers to a type of board.

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