bindee
English
Etymology
bind + -ee
Noun
bindee (plural bindees)
- (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.
- 1999, Georges Rebuschi, Laurice Tuller, The Grammar of Focus (page 290)