grammaticise
grammaticise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of grammaticize.
Meaning of grammaticize
Verb
grammaticize (third-person singular simple present grammaticizes, present participle grammaticizing, simple past and past participle grammaticized)
- Synonym of grammaticalize (“to make grammatical”).
- the very first attempt to embody, to arrange, or to grammaticize, this languagea. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- grammaticalize
- Synonym of grammaticalize (“to to cause (something) to be required by the rules of grammar”).
- ... organization (hence its heavy reliance on passives), but does not seem to grammaticize any person-based constraint. In languages with canonical inverse constructions (say Algonquian languages), the non-local person-based constraint is the primary determinant of argument encoding, and ordinary...2008, Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., Investigations of the SyntaxSemanticsPragmatics Interface, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 56
- Synonyms:
- grammaticalize
- Synonym of grammaticalize (“to cause to undergo grammaticization/grammaticalization”).
- Or to put it another way, the present tense use did not grammaticize. I suggest that the reason for this is that the habitual was more frequently used in the past than the present, since in the present there would be fewer cases […]1994, William Pagliuca, Perspectives on Grammaticalization, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 247
- Synonyms:
- grammaticalize
Forms of grammaticise
| third-person singular present | grammaticises |
|---|---|
| present participle | grammaticising |
| past participle | grammaticised |
| past | grammaticised |
Origin of grammaticise
From grammatic + -ise.
Words formed from grammaticise
Questions about grammaticise
- What is grammaticise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
- Grammaticise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of grammaticize.
Words near grammaticise in the dictionary
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