Grammatize

Quick meaning: Grammatize 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. (rare) Synonym of grammaticalize (“to cause to undergo grammatization/grammaticalization”).

Example Sentences

[…] nouns and partly so in the case of genericity, which could have helped to grammatize Ø as an article of its own.

Grosu notes that different languages grammatize different constraints — English, for instance, has grammatized a constraint against complex prenominal modifiers, while German has not.

A poet must learn to speak, to write, to grammatize, before he can impart his emotion; he must learn a lot about the universe before he can have anything of emotional worth to impart; and he must learn some sort of prosodical technique from .

I predict that some languages grammatize both notions, some grammatize only one of the two, and some grammatize neither (see Chapter Six). Such a view also sheds considerable light on the debate about the status of durativity: durativity is .

Word Forms

• grammatizes
• grammatizing
• grammatized

Synonyms for grammatize

Depending on context, synonyms include grammaticalize.

Related Words

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

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