Unstrandable

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not able to be left without an expressed complement adjacent to it.

    "Unstrandable function words include the determiners and quantifiers that introduce nominal constituents, and the complementisers that introduce clauses."

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"Unstrandable function words include the determiners and quantifiers that introduce nominal constituents, and the complementisers that introduce clauses."

Etymology

From un- + strandable.

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