Grammatize

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

Synonym of grammaticalize (“to make grammatical”)..

Definitions by Sense

1. Synonym of grammaticalize (“to make grammatical”).
2. Synonym of grammaticalize (“to to cause (something) to be required by the rules of grammar”).
3. (rare) Synonym of grammaticalize (“to cause to undergo grammatization/grammaticalization”).

Example Sentences

"Every language," says Macaulay, "throws light on every other. We acknowledge, too, that the great body of our countrymen learn to grammatize their English by means of their Latin. This, however, proves, not the usefulness of their Latin, but ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

For example, it is sometimes suggested that German has a pair of verbal suffixes -l/-r which impart durative, or rather iterative, meaning on a verb […] Suffixation with -l/-r is thus not an instance of a productive morphosyntactic contrast, and cannot be said to grammatize durativity (or iterativity).

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

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• grammatizes
• grammatizing
• grammatized

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