Meaning of grammarize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To create a grammar for (a language); to describe the grammar of.
2. To codify; to analyze and describe.
   broadly
3. To correct the grammar of (a body of speech or text).
   transitive

Examples

“The grammar that the early grammarians knew was Latin grammar, and when they decided to grammarize English, they simply transposed the Latin structure and the Latin terminology and called it English grammar.”

“But if he is himself a speaker of the language he proposes to grammarize, he doesn't generally need the corpus to tell him what are sentences of the language and what are not.”

“But all their efforts to "grammarize" Chinese have proved fruitless. The reason is not that Chinese itself has no grammar but that a language should be idiomatic rather than grammatical, or rather, idiomatic regardless of grammar.”

“Mina remains, however, a spoken dialectical variant despite a recent attempt by an American Baptist missionary organization to orthographize and grammarize via a translation of the Christian New Testament.”

“To quote the old expression, "he gave the court and jury the raw material and let them 'grammarize' it to suit themselves."”

“Moreover, seen in retrospect from the first line of quatrain 3, it would seem that "But reckening time" embodies a catch in the voice as if the poet had been unable to "grammarize" his fears properly, thereby involving him in a syntactic anacoluthon.”

“To turn experience into speech—that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it—is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all.”

“People with Autism would be better off if we would grammarize our daily lives for them—that is, reduce our daily lives to a series of deductive grammars of action that they could then memorize.”

“"What is the good of being a jim-dandy shape and a way-up cutter," he sadly thought one Sunday night, after he had been in bed for more than two hours vainly trying to go to sleep," if a fellow tangles his languidge all up, tumbles his words over one another, and can't grammarize what he says. I'm hungry for education."”

“During the “good old days” compositors (down this way, at least) had to edit “manifold”—grammarize it, supply dates, figure out sub-heads, etc.”

“There is another side to this question; some editors rearrange articles and grammarize them so that the individual touch and idea is almost lost and this brings to a publication the same phrasing throughout its pages.”

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