strandable
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]strandable (comparative more strandable, superlative most strandable)
- (grammar, of a word or phrase) Able to be left without an expressed complement adjacent to it.
- Antonym: unstrandable
- 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:
- 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.