Talk:Bahuvrihi

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[edit] Exocentric equals Bahuvrihi?

I'm afraid that I don't know enough about lingustics to fix this article, but I'll note two inconsistencies which someone knowledgeable should look at:

1. The last paragraph here says "the whole compound is an adjective and agrees in gender and number with the head." If that's true, these sound like a sub-type of exocentric compound. In which case this article should be renamed, with bahuvrihi redirecting to exocentric compound.

2. Also, the compound (linguistics) article says that "Exocentric compounds do not have a head." If this is a type of OR a synonym for exocentric compound, then one of these two pages is wrong about the head. --Our Bold Hero 15:10, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Exocentric compounds do have a head, but the compound and the head cannot be used to refer to the same thing. A blackbird (endocentric) is surely a kind of bird, whereas a foxglove (exocentric) is neither a kind of fox nor a kind of glove. Nevertheless, glove is the head of this compound. I agree that the examples in the article are misleading. Jasy jatere 11:50, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

All bahuvrihi are necessarily exocentric, but the reverse is not true. The foxglove cited above would be exocentric, but imho it is not a bahuvrihi Jasy jatere 11:50, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

It is not a bahuvrihi; it is a type of tatpurusha. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.249.242.85 (talk) 20:14, 17 January 2008 (UTC)