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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Endocentric compound''' is a type of [[compound]] in which one member functions as the [[head]] and the other as its [[modifier]], attributing a property to the head. The relation between the members of an endocentric compound can be schematized as 'AB is (a) B'.<br />
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=== Example ===<br />
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The English compound ''steamboat'' as compared with ''boat'' is a modified, expanded version of ''boat'' with its range of usage restricted, so that ''steamboat'' will be found in basically the same semantic contexts as the noun ''boat''. The compound also retains the primary syntactic features of ''boat'', since both are nouns. Hence, a ''steamboat''is a particular type of ''boat'', where the class of steamboats is a subclass of the class of boats. See [[Exocentric compound]].<br />
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=== Link ===<br />
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[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Endocentric+compound&lemmacode=778 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br />
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=== References ===<br />
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* Allen, M.R. 1978. ''Morphological Investigations,'' PhD diss. Univ. of Connecticut.<br />
* Kiparsky, P. 1982. ''From Cyclic Phonology to Lexical Phonology,'' in: Hulst, H. van der and N. Smith (eds.) The Structure of Phonological Representations (I), pp.131-175<br />
* Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.<br />
* Williams, E. 1981a. ''On the notions 'Lexically Related' and 'Head of a Word','' Linguistic Inquiry 12, pp. 245-274<br />
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