| Lemma | external distribution class |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Nida (1949) |
| Titolo | Morphology. The descriptive analysis of words |
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| Citazioni | Exocentric constructions are those in which the unit as a whole belongs to a different external distribution class from the nuclear constituent or from both of the immediate constituents. [...] In the word 'income' the immediate constituents are an adverb 'in' and a verb 'come'; the resulting combination, being a noun, is exocentric, in that it does not belong too the class of either immediate constituents. |