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extragrammatical

extragrammatical adjective: existing separately from a language's grammar.

Adjective

extragrammatical (not comparable)

  1. Existing separately from a language's grammar.
    • an extragrammatical influence on speech
    • Under Bever's proposed approach, only those unacceptable sentences whose badness cannot be explained by any plausible extragrammatical aspect of speech behavior are ungrammatical.1996, Carson T. Schütze, The Empirical Base of Linguistics: Grammaticality Judgments and Linguistic Methodology, Chicago, I.L.: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 31

Origin of extragrammatical

From extra- + grammatical.

Questions about extragrammatical

What does extragrammatical mean?
Extragrammatical means existing separately from a language's grammar.
What part of speech is extragrammatical?
Extragrammatical is an adjective.

Words near extragrammatical in the dictionary

  1. extraglycosomal
  2. extragnathic
  3. extragonadal
  4. extragovernmental
  5. extragradient
  6. extragrammatical
  7. extragranular
  8. extraguild
  9. extragynoecial
  10. extrahaustorial
  11. extrahazardous

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