unstrandable en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + strandable.
Meanings
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(of a word or phrase) 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.
2016, Andrew Radford, Analysing English Sentences, second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 143:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more unstrandable | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most unstrandable | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |