strandable

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English

Etymology

From strand +‎ -able.

Adjective

strandable (comparative more strandable, superlative most strandable)

  1. (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.