grammaticize means synonym of grammaticalize (“to make grammatical”). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From grammatic + -ize.
verb
- Synonym of grammaticalize (“to make grammatical”).“the very first attempt to embody, to arrange, or to grammaticize, this language”
- Synonym of grammaticalize (“to to cause (something) to be required by the rules of grammar”).“... organization (hence its heavy reliance on passives), but does not seem to grammaticize any person-based constraint. In languages with canonical inverse constructions (say Algonquian languages), the non-local person-based constraint is the primary determinant of argument encoding, and ordinary notion of topicality (which is local) plays little role.”
- Synonym of grammaticalize (“to cause to undergo grammaticization/grammaticalization”).“Or to put it another way, the present tense use did not grammaticize. I suggest that the reason for this is that the habitual was more frequently used in the past than the present, since in the present there would be fewer cases […]”
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