matrix sentence
Linguistics
noun
(In transformational grammar) a sentence in which subordinate sentences may be embedded.
Origin
1960s.
- protonema
- protonemal
- protonematal
- protoneolithic
- protonephridial
- protonephridium
- protonephron
- protonephros
- proton gradiometer
- protonic
- protonically
- proto-Nile
- proton magnetometer
- protonmotive
- protonmotive force
- protonosphere
- protonotarial
- protonotariat
- protonotary
- Protonotary Apostolic
- Protonotary Apostolical
- proton-precession magnetometer
- proton synchrotron
- protonym
- protonymph