obligatorification
Definitions
The act or process of, or an instance of, (something) becoming or being made (more) obligatory, especially as part of the process of grammaticalization.
Examples
“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: [...]”
“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?”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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