10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXOCENTRIC»
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exocentric in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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ADV EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Endocentric altruism is clearly pseudoaltruistic, but exocentric altruism appears to
be truly altruistic; the goal seems to ... the other's welfare: "Exocentric approaches
assume that improvement of the partner's condition may possess inherent ...
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Growing Points in Child Language
For nine of the 12 subjects, the proportion of regular and irregular responses
which was regular was greater for exocentric items than for endocentric items;
one subject gave a greater proportion of regular responses in the endocentric ...
Katharine Perera, Glyn Collis, Brian J. Richards, 1994
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Language Structure and Translation: Essays
Endocentric and Exocentric Structures In the same way that there are endocentric
and exocentric constructions on a formal level, there are corresponding
structures on a semantic level. For example, it is quite impossible to determine
the ...
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Creative Compounding in English: The Semantics of ...
67) that the distinction between endocentric and exocentric compounds4 is of
little relevance: whether greenhouse is endocentric or exocentric depends on
whether it is conceptualised as a kind of house. This argumentation can be seen
very ...
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200 Years of Syntax: A Critical Survey
The constituent whose privileges of occurrence are matched by those of the
constitute is the 'head' or 'center'; the other constituent is the 'attribute'. Harris ( 1
95 1 ) defines exocentric and endocentric constructions as follows: Sequences of
the ...
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Cross-disciplinary Issues in Compounding
My personal feeling about these is that the notion of 'exocentricity' is not helpful
here. Just as we do not say that ass is exocentric if someone says My teacher is
an ass, so we should not call compounds like dust bowl exocentric. Nevertheless
...
Sergio Scalise, Irene Vogel, 2010
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Virtual and Mixed Reality
The results of this study were threefold. First, the exocentric views provided
during the spatial navigation in the virtual multilevel building can significantly
improve the accuracy of mental representation of the spatial horizontal
information (see ...
Another type of English exocentric compounds consists of adjectives with noun
head: two-pound, five-cent, half-mile, (in) apple- pie (order). The difference of
form-class may be less radical, but still recognizable in the system of the
language.
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Linear Unit Grammar: Integrating Speech and Writing
What is not resolved is the relative status of successive exocentric units. For
example, a conventional grammar would require the three prepositional phrases
to be incorporated within the previous constructions to make clauses. This is easy
to ...
John McHardy Sinclair, Anna Mauranen, 2006
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Compound Words in Spanish: Theory and History
The following discussion considers only compounding patterns that have
exhibited at least some endocentric and some exocentric exemplars over time,
because those are the only cases in which the question of a possible
evolutionfrom ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXOCENTRIC»
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exocentric is used in the context of the following news items.
Serpent Electrifies 200mm Touring With Natrix 748-e
The differential brackets, L and R equal, are toothed and seat the exocentric bearing holder, which allow for setting belt tension. Its very quick ... «Radio control Car Action, Jun 15»
The Kick-Butt World of Cutthroat Compounds
In exocentric compounds the head is missing or external: A bigmouth is not a type of mouth and an egghead is not a type of head—both refer to ... «Slate Magazine, May 15»
JOHN BRISTOW | God's beauty in a tulip
... the sole owner, an elderly man who, although known in the community as a religious exocentric, was also noted as a source of extremely tough stewing hens. «Kitsap Sun, May 15»
Honeywell Readies Situational Awareness Tools For Embraer E2 …
The 3-D moving map shows an exocentric view of the aircraft, from behind and to the right and includes taxiways and runways with labels and ... «Aviation Week, Apr 15»
Universal Avionics Unveils InSight Integrated Flight Deck
A key feature of the original Vision 1 synthetic vision was the exocentric “bird's-eye” view, where the pilot could select between a perspective ... «Aviation International News, Oct 14»
Honeywell Cockpit Technology Advancing Toward Lower Landing …
The 3-D view pops up, almost as if the occupant of the cockpit suddenly gets whisked up and away to view the airplane from an exocentric ... «Aviation International News, Oct 14»
Will anyone bat for the frightbat, or is it destined to die?
... while exocentric heads are externally related to the type of thing the compound refers to (e.g. “meathead” does not refer to a type of head but ... «The Conversation, Jun 14»
Honeywell SmartView Add-ons Offer Improved Pilot Situational …
With the Honeywell 3-D taxi add-on to SmartView pilots will have the option of selecting an exocentric view (shown here) or an egocentric one, ... «Aviation International News, Oct 13»
Dickheads Are More Like Buttheads Than A**holes
On the other hand, if dickhead the insult means “having a dick for a head,” it's an example of an exocentric, or headless, compound noun. «Slate Magazine, Oct 13»
Review by Diana Soeiro
... distance and direction, that either denote self-to-object distances (egocentric distances) or object-to-object distances (exocentric distances). «Metapsychology, Jun 13»
