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strandable

strandable adjective: able to be left without an expressed complement adjacent to it.

Adjective

strandable (comparative more strandable, superlative most strandable)

  1. Able to be left without an expressed complement adjacent to it.
    • 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.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...
    Antonyms:
    unstrandable

Antonyms of strandable

Forms of strandable

comparativemore strandable
superlativemost strandable

Origin of strandable

From strand + -able.

Questions about strandable

What does strandable mean?
Strandable means able to be left without an expressed complement adjacent to it.
What part of speech is strandable?
Strandable is an adjective.

Words near strandable in the dictionary

  1. strand
  2. strand line
  3. strand lines
  4. strand tangantangan
  5. strandability
  6. strandable
  7. Strandberg
  8. Strandbergs
  9. stranded
  10. strandedness
  11. strandee

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