"The man standing in the hallway looked depressed" is a(an)______ construction. A: endocentric B: exocentric C: coordinative D: subordinate

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.

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