The meaning of STRADDLE is to stand, sit, or walk with the legs wide apart; especially : to sit astride. How to use straddle in a sentence.
The Role of Syntax and Morphology in Paradigms Periphrasis straddles the border between two major linguistic components, morphology and syntax. It describes a situation where a grammatical meaning, such as a tense, which could be expected to be expressed morphologically within a word... M Chu...