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decategorialized

decategorialized is the simple past and past participle 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

Questions about decategorialized

What is decategorialized the simple past and past participle of?
Decategorialized is the simple past and past participle of decategorialize.

Words near decategorialized in the dictionary

  1. decategorialised
  2. decategorialises
  3. decategorialising
  4. decategorialization
  5. decategorialize
  6. decategorialized
  7. decategorializes
  8. decategorializing
  9. decategorification
  10. decategorifications
  11. decategorified

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