Obligatorification

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act or process of, or an instance of, (something) becoming or being made (more) obligatory, especially as part of the process of grammaticalization. countable, uncountable

    "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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"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: [...]"

Etymology

From obligatory + -ification.

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