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From bind + -ee.
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.
