strandable

English

Etymology

From strand +‎ -able.

Adjective

strandable (comparative more strandable, superlative most strandable)

2. (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.

Related terms

• strandability
• stranding