strandable

comparative more strandable · superlative most strandable

1. grammarAble 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, →ISBN, page 85

   Antonyms: unstrandable