高等教育语法CoordinationSubordination.pptVIP

  An endocentric construction is a grammatical construction that fulfills the same linguistic function as one of its constituents. An endocentric construction consists of an obligatory head and one or more optional, dependent words, whose presence serves to narrow the meaning of the head. For example, armchair, CD-writer, lion house, poor John…(subordination) Men and women, boys and girls…(coordination) An exocentric construction refers to phrases and compound words which are not the same part of speech as their constituents. For example, in the sentence “I am in the doghouse”, the phrase