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decategorialise

decategorialise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of decategorialize.

Meaning of decategorialize

Verb

decategorialize (third-person singular simple present decategorializes, present participle decategorializing, simple past and past participle decategorialized)

  1. To undergo decategorialization.
    • […] in which the lexeme begins to "decategorialize" (Heine et al. 1991), i.e. to lose the morphosyntactic behaviors characteristic of its original category. For example, in the English relator noun construction on top of NP, top, while clearly a noun […]1997, Joan L. Bybee, John Haiman, Sandra A. Thompson, Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 56

Forms of decategorialise

third-person singular presentdecategorialises
present participledecategorialising
past participledecategorialised
pastdecategorialised

Questions about decategorialise

What is decategorialise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Decategorialise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of decategorialize.

Words near decategorialise in the dictionary

  1. decasyllabon
  2. decasyllabons
  3. decate
  4. decated
  5. decategorialisation
  6. decategorialise
  7. decategorialised
  8. decategorialises
  9. decategorialising
  10. decategorialization
  11. decategorialize

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