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Re-evaluating exocentricity in word-formation

Abstract

The distinction between endocentric and exocentric is usually taken as an important semantic factor in classifying compounds. But the same division does not appear to be used in classifying derivatives. This may be because exocentricity has no obvious correlates in derivation; but it is argued here that its correlates in compounding are illusory, and that there are alternative, and probably more explanatory, ways of dealing with exocentrics.

Abstract

The distinction between endocentric and exocentric is usually taken as an important semantic factor in classifying compounds. But the same division does not appear to be used in classifying derivatives. This may be because exocentricity has no obvious correlates in derivation; but it is argued here that its correlates in compounding are illusory, and that there are alternative, and probably more explanatory, ways of dealing with exocentrics.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. About the Authors ix
  4. How are words related? 1
  5. Paradigms at the interface of a lexeme’s syntax and semantics with its inflectional morphology 27
  6. A postsyntactic morphome cookbook 59
  7. Discussion 1
  8. Syncretism in paradigm function morphology and distributed morphology 95
  9. Phase domains at PF 121
  10. The costs of zero-derived causativity in English 163
  11. Spans and words 201
  12. Discussion 2
  13. Building words 223
  14. Emergent morphology 237
  15. Morphology as an adaptive discriminative system 271
  16. Readjustment: Rejected? 303
  17. Towards a Restricted Realization Theory 343
  18. Discussion 3
  19. We do not need structuralist morphemes, but we do need constituent structure 387
  20. Inner and Outer morphology in Greek adjectival participles 431
  21. Re-evaluating exocentricity in word-formation 461
  22. Affix ordering in Optimal Construction Morphology 479
  23. On the interplay of facts and theory 513
  24. Discussion 4
  25. Editors’ note 537
  26. Index 541
Morphological Metatheory
This chapter is in the book Morphological Metatheory
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.229.15bau

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. About the Authors ix
  4. How are words related? 1
  5. Paradigms at the interface of a lexeme’s syntax and semantics with its inflectional morphology 27
  6. A postsyntactic morphome cookbook 59
  7. Discussion 1
  8. Syncretism in paradigm function morphology and distributed morphology 95
  9. Phase domains at PF 121
  10. The costs of zero-derived causativity in English 163
  11. Spans and words 201
  12. Discussion 2
  13. Building words 223
  14. Emergent morphology 237
  15. Morphology as an adaptive discriminative system 271
  16. Readjustment: Rejected? 303
  17. Towards a Restricted Realization Theory 343
  18. Discussion 3
  19. We do not need structuralist morphemes, but we do need constituent structure 387
  20. Inner and Outer morphology in Greek adjectival participles 431
  21. Re-evaluating exocentricity in word-formation 461
  22. Affix ordering in Optimal Construction Morphology 479
  23. On the interplay of facts and theory 513
  24. Discussion 4
  25. Editors’ note 537
  26. Index 541
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