Grammarize

Quick meaning: Grammarize is a verb meaning To create a grammar for (a language); to describe the grammar of.

Meaning

To create a grammar for (a language); to describe the grammar of.

More Meanings

1. (more generally) To codify; to analyze and describe.
2. (transitive) To correct the grammar of (a body of speech or text).

Example Sentences

To quote the old expression, "he gave the court and jury the raw material and let them 'grammarize' it to suit themselves."

But if he is himself a speaker of the language he proposes to grammarize, he doesn't generally need the corpus to tell him what are sentences of the language and what are not.

People with Autism would be better off if we would grammarize our daily lives for them—that is, reduce our daily lives to a series of deductive grammars of action that they could then memorize.

Mina remains, however, a spoken dialectical variant despite a recent attempt by an American Baptist missionary organization to orthographize and grammarize via a translation of the Christian New Testament.

Word Forms

• grammarizes
• grammarizing
• grammarized

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grammarise, grammatize, grammaticize, grammaticalize, grammar, parse.

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