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degrammatizing

degrammatizing is the present participle and gerund of degrammatize.

Meaning of degrammatize

Verb

degrammatize (third-person singular simple present degrammatizes, present participle degrammatizing, simple past and past participle degrammatized)

  1. Synonym of degrammaticalize.
    • […] lasted for centuries in Indic and Hellenic (in Iranian the sigmatic categories were ultimately degrammatized from phonology by the fricative weakening (s > h > Ø); in Baltic there are no traces of the sigmatic Aorist, […]2017, Vit Bubenik, Development of Tense/Aspect in Semitic in the Context of Afro-Asiatic Languages, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 8

Questions about degrammatizing

What is degrammatizing the present participle and gerund of?
Degrammatizing is the present participle and gerund of degrammatize.

Words near degrammatizing in the dictionary

  1. degrammaticizes
  2. degrammaticizing
  3. degrammatize
  4. degrammatized
  5. degrammatizes
  6. degrammatizing
  7. Degrange
  8. Degranges
  9. degranulate
  10. degranulated
  11. degranulates

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