unstrandable
adjEtymology From un- + strandable.
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Of a word or phrase Not able to be left without an expressed complement adjacent to it.
- Unstrandable function words include the determiners and quantifiers that introduce nominal constituents, and the complementisers that introduce clauses.2016, Andrew Radford, Analysing English Sentences, second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 143:
- Related terms
- strandability, stranding