exocentric

基本解释

When "until last Easter" serves as an adverb it is an exocentric construction.
当“直到上一个复活节”用作副词时，它是一种外向结构。
From cognitive linguistics angles, exocentric compound words have a profound semantic and cognitive base.
从认知语言学的角度分析，离心结构复合词有着深刻的语义认知基础。
Being two fundamental concepts of Stmcturalism, "endocentric structure" and "exocentric structure" were first proposed by Bloomfield, later improved by Hockett.
作为美国结构主义语言学理论的两个基础概念，“向心结构”和“离心结构”首先由布龙菲尔德提出，后由霍凯特加以改进。

(of a construction) not fulfilling the grammatical role of any of its constituents as in until last Easter, where the constituents are prepositional, adjectival, and nominal, while the whole construction is adverbial &rarrcompare endocentric