fulfilling the grammatical role of one of its constituents;
"when `three blind mice' serves as a noun it is an endocentric construction"
例句
Chinese noun modifiers are often expressed with endocentric phrases. 作者发现在英语名词词组中，中心词的修饰语非常灵活；
Hence an endocentric construction is also known as a headed construction. 因此向心结构也叫做中心结构。
However, Chinese has various ways to express English noun modifiers in legislation, apart from endocentric phrases. 而汉语则相对稳定，修饰语总是放在中心词的前面，通常用偏正词组来表示。
But I believe, wherever she escape, can't succeed in escaping the rebuke of conscience, escape endocentric pang. 但是我相信，无论她逃到哪里，都无法逃脱良心的谴责，逃离内心的苦痛。
The endocentric love has burst out As a flash of lightning rush out. The calling language wakens, The first fire is burning in the wild. 内心的爱碰撞出第一道闪电呼唤的呢语唤醒第一把荒火。
According to relation of the clauses, a complex sentence can be classified into two types: coordinate complex sentence and endocentric complex sentence. 根据各分句之间的关系,复句可以分成联合复句与偏正复句两大类。
