1 In L.Tesnière’s dependency grammar, a semantic-syntactic term for the syntactic node of a sentence and its additional semantic functions. As the ‘constituent cell’ of a sentence its structure in the tree diagram is more complex...

In an endocentric construction, term for the antecedent (also: center, head) that is semantically specified (modified) by an attributive element (also: determiner, modifier). In the sentence She sings very well, well is the nucleus of the satellite...

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In phonetics and phonology, the nucleus (sometimes called peak) is the central part of the syllable, most commonly a vowel. In addition to a nucleus, a syllable may begin with an onset and end with a coda, but in most languages the only part of a...