bindee
nounEtymology From bind + -ee.
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A language element that is grammatically bound.
- [S]upposing the NP has raised in (18), the potential bindees are the clitic and the trace of the focalized NP, neither of which qualifies as a syntactic variable.1999, Georges Rebuschi, Laurice Tuller, The Grammar of Focus, page 290: