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decategorializing

decategorializing is the present participle and gerund 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 decategorializing

What is decategorializing the present participle and gerund of?
Decategorializing is the present participle and gerund of decategorialize.

Words near decategorializing in the dictionary

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

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