strandable
adjEtymology From strand + -able.
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Of a word or phrase Able to be left without an expressed complement adjacent to it.
- My proposed analysis, therefore, makes an interesting prediction in these cases, namely, that the prepositions which are not strandable under regular wh-movement become strandable under sluicing.2010, Yosuke Sato, “P-stranding under sluicing at the syntax–phonology interface”, in Minimalist Interfaces: Evidence from Indonesian and Javanese, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 85:
- Related terms
- strandability, stranding