unstrandable

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ strandable.

Adjective

unstrandable (comparative more unstrandable, superlative most unstrandable)

  2. (grammar, of a word or phrase) Not able to be left without an expressed complement adjacent to it.
    Antonym: strandable
    • 2016, Andrew Radford, Analysing English Sentences, second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 143:
      Unstrandable function words include the determiners and quantifiers that introduce nominal constituents, and the complementisers that introduce clauses.
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