bindee

English

Etymology

From bind +‎ -ee.

Noun

bindee (plural bindees)

1. (grammar) A language element that is grammatically bound.
   • 1999, Georges Rebuschi, Laurice Tuller, The Grammar of Focus, page 290:

     [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.