Grammatize
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Synonym of grammaticalize (“to make grammatical”).
""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 ..."
- 2 Synonym of grammaticalize (“to to cause (something) to be required by the rules of grammar”).
"Grosu notes that different languages grammatize different constraints — English, for instance, has grammatized a constraint against complex prenominal modifiers, while German has not."
- 3 Synonym of grammaticalize (“to cause to undergo grammatization/grammaticalization”). rare
"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)."
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