Grammaticize

Quick meaning: Grammaticize is a verb meaning Synonym of grammaticalize (“to make grammatical”).

Meaning

Synonym of grammaticalize (“to make grammatical”).

More Meanings

1. Synonym of grammaticalize (“to to cause (something) to be required by the rules of grammar”).
2. Synonym of grammaticalize (“to cause to undergo grammaticization/grammaticalization”).

Example Sentences

the very first attempt to embody, to arrange, or to grammaticize, this language

Thus it appears that one avenue by which cunnan begins to grammaticize as an auxiliary is determined by the fact that it was already frequent and had already undergone some weakening of its semantic content.

Clause initial position is a frequent place for anaphoric elements and markers of textual coherence to grammaticize. The grammaticalization of a QP from a disjunction with anaphoric function fits well into this picture.

Or to put it another way, the present tense use did not grammaticize. I suggest that the reason for this is that the habitual was more frequently used in the past than the present, since in the present there would be fewer cases […]

Word Forms

• grammaticizes
• grammaticizing
• grammaticized

Synonyms for grammaticize

Depending on context, synonyms include grammaticalize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grammatize, grammaticalize, grammaticise, grammaticalise, grammarise, grammarize.

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