1.1.1.1.2. Exocentric compounds

Exocentric compounds do not allow to predict the compound meaning. Exocentric constructions are semantically unpredictable compounds, as in the following example.

 

eye^paper (‘medical outcome’)

(extracted from the corpus created in Villaécija, 2019)

 

In this case, the compound eye^paper is not compositional and does not give a clue about the intended meaning, which is ‘medical outcome’.