Bindee

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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"[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."

Etymology

From bind + -ee.

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