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Exocentric has a number of meanings.
In linguistics, it refers to phrases and compound words which are not the same part of speech as their constituents. Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. ...
A phrase is a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence. ...
A word is a unit of language that carries meaning and consists of one or more morphemes. ...
In grammar, a part of speech or word class is defined as the role that a word (or sometimes a phrase) plays in a sentence. ...
For example, in the sentence "I am in the doghouse", the phrase "in the doghouse" is an exocentric phrase, since it functions as an adjective (similar to the "tired" in "I am tired"), not as a preposition or noun, which is what its constituents "in" and "house" are. The word "shortcoming" is also exocentric, since it is a noun, but its two constituents are an adjective and a verb. An adjective is a part of speech which modifies a noun, usually describing it or making its meaning more specific. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with adposition. ...
A noun, or noun substantive, is a part of speech (a word or phrase) which can co-occur with (in)definite articles and attributive adjectives, and function as the head of a noun phrase. ...
A verb is a part of speech that usually denotes action (bring, read), occurrence (decompose, glitter), or a state of being (exist, stand). Depending on the language, a verb may vary in form according to many factors, possibly including its tense, aspect, mood and voice. ...
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