From the history of the term ‘exocentric’

Headedness in Word Formation and Lexical Semantics: Evidence from Italiot and Cypriot (University of Patras, 2014)

“…Second, the distinction between endocentric and exocentric compounds was known to scholars before Bloomfield and the introduction of this distinction into modern literature should be attributed to Aleksandrov (1888) who argues for a distinction between exocentric and esocentric compounds. 1 Following Aleksandrov, a number of authors such as Brugmann (1906), Brugmann and Delbrück (1906), and Debrunner (1917) have also used this distinction (for more on this issue see Noordegraaf, 1989).…”

English and French [NN]Nlexical units: A categorial, morphological and semantic comparison

“…One main difference with much previous work lies in the fact that we do not refer in our classification to the concepts of endocentricity and exocentricity, which have been extensively used since Bloomfield (1933), but actually predate his treatise (see Noordegraaf 1989). In our view, the exocentricity of English and French [NN] N units is secondary to the word-formation process (Dressler 2006: 34 speaks of 'secondary head-hood' for exocentric compounds).…”

Headedness in word formation and lexical semantics

“…Second, the distinction between endocentric and exocentric compounds was known to scholars before Bloomfield and the introduction of this distinction into modern literature should be attributed to Aleksandrov (1888) who argues for a distinction between exocentric and esocentric compounds. 1 Following Aleksandrov, a number of authors such as Brugmann (1906), Delbrück (1906), andDebrunner (1917) have also used this distinction (for more on this issue see Noordegraaf, 1989).…”