Talk:Exocentric

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"Bittersweet" is a noun? --Trovatore 05:10, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Ooops, good catch. Yeah, it's an adjective. OK, time to think of a new example... too tired at the moment. Hmm, does "hardscrabble" (adj+verb) ever function as a noun? How about "longstanding" as an adjective? Ah, got one - "shortcoming" - adj+verb, but it's a noun. Noel (talk) 05:25, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Exocentric vs Egocentric

Don't you think that a difference here should be established between exocentric and egocentric compounds? Defining exocentric in a way of comparison? Egocentric- if the meaning can be deduced from the compound (millowner, sunbeam). Exocentric- the meaning cannot be deduced as contstituent parts of a compound have different meaning when standing in isolation. However, having been joined together a resulting compound obtains an essencially different meaning. (e.g pickpocket- not a pocket nor "to pick", but what is meant is 'thief'). What do you think of my proposal?