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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)

  1. 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
  2. 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 Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 56
    Synonyms:
    grammaticalize
  3. 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 presentgrammaticises
present participlegrammaticising
past participlegrammaticised
pastgrammaticised

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

  1. grammatications
  2. grammatician
  3. grammaticians
  4. grammaticisation
  5. grammaticisations
  6. grammaticise
  7. grammaticised
  8. grammaticises
  9. grammaticising
  10. grammaticism
  11. grammaticisms

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