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(linguistics) The act or process of, or an instance of, (something) becoming or being made (more) obligatory, especially as part of the process of grammaticalization..
Following Jakobson 1959 [1972] and Lehmann 1982 [1995], grammaticalization for most observers always entails obligatorification. As Jakobson memorably put it, languages differ not in what they can say, but in what they must: [...]
Mandarin and Khmer and possibly other Southeast Asian languages may be characterized as resisting obligatorification of their meaningful morphology. Could this have anything to do with their penchant for decorative morphology?
Use obligatorification when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Obligatorification means (linguistics) The act or process of, or an instance of, (something) becoming or being made (more) obligatory, especially as part of the process of grammaticalization..
Common synonyms include obligatorization.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Following Jakobson 1959 [1972] and Lehmann 1982 [1995], grammaticalization for most observers always entails obligatorification. As Jakobson memorably put it, languages differ not in what they can say, but in what they must: [...]
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