Meaning of grammatize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of grammaticalize (“to make grammatical”).
2. Synonym of grammaticalize (“to to cause (something) to be required by the rules of grammar”).
3. Synonym of grammaticalize (“to cause to undergo grammatization/grammaticalization”).
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Examples

“"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 ...”

“A poet must learn⟳ to speak⟳, to write⟳, to grammatize, before he can impart his emotion; he must learn⟳ a lot about the universe before he can have⟳ anything of emotional worth to impart; and he must learn⟳ some sort⟳ of prosodical technique from ...”

“Grosu notes that different languages grammatize different constraints — English, for instance, has grammatized a constraint against complex prenominal modifiers, while German has not.”

“I predict⟳ that some languages grammatize both notions, some grammatize only one of the two, and some grammatize neither (see⟳ Chapter Six). Such a view⟳ also sheds considerable light⟳ on the debate⟳ about the status of durativity: durativity is ...”

“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).”

“[…] nouns and partly so in the case of genericity, which could have⟳ helped to grammatize Ø as an article of its own⟳.”

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