bindee

English

Etymology

bind +‎ -ee

Noun

bindee (plural bindees)

  1. (grammar) A language element that is grammatically bound.
    • 1999, Georges Rebuschi, Laurice Tuller, The Grammar of Focus, page 290:
      [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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