bindee

A language element that is grammatically bound.

Noun

  1. A language element that is grammatically bound.
    • [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. - 1999, Georges Rebuschi, Laurice Tuller, The Grammar of...

Origin

From bind + -ee.

Forms

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