Obligatorification

Quick meaning: Obligatorification is a noun meaning (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.

Meaning

(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.

Example Sentences

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?

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: [...]

Word Forms

• obligatorifications

Synonyms for obligatorification

Depending on context, synonyms include obligatorization.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include obligatorization, grammaticalization, obliging, lexicalization, formalization, officialization.

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