Exocentric construction refers to a group of sytactically related words where one or more of its constituents serves as a definable “Center” or “Head” inside the group.
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- 中国大学MOOC: ________ construction is one whose distribution is functionally equivalent to that of one or more of its constituents, i.e., a word or a group of words, which serves as a definable centre or head.
- A group of related words is likely to be more memorable than a list of unrelated items. The relation of body and “head, eyes, ears, mouth” can be called as ______ .
- The so-called “thought group” refers to a group of words closely related in meaning and grammatical structure. This group of words includes some key words and non-key words, in which key words provide key information, whilenon-key words are used to express auxiliary information.
- Those constructions where there is only one head, with the head dominant and the other constituents being modifiers, are ______. A: endocentric constructions B: exocentric constructions C: deep structure D: surface structure
- A group of related words is likely to be more memorable than a list of unrelated items. The relation of body and “head, eyes, ears, mouth” can be called as______. A: hyponyms B: lexical fields C: antonyms D: synonyms