syntagme nominalcommon nounSyllable Decompositionsyntagme nominalEtymologyexpandword see syntagme and nominal.Definition1. A phrase whose nucleus is a noun. It functions as a pronoun. For example, 'the black cat' is a nominal phrase whose nucleus is 'cat'. In generative linguistics, the determiner is considered the nucleus rather than the noun, and it is therefore called a determiner phrase.grammaireexpandSynonymgroupe nominalHyperonymsyntagmeTranslationsgerman:Nominalphraseenglish:NPkorean:명사구japanese:名詞句portuguese:frase substantiva