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grammaticizes

grammaticizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about grammaticizes

What is grammaticizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Grammaticizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of grammaticize.

Words near grammaticizes in the dictionary

  1. grammaticizable
  2. grammaticization
  3. grammaticizations
  4. grammaticize
  5. grammaticized
  6. grammaticizes
  7. grammaticizing
  8. grammatico-
  9. grammatico-historical
  10. grammaticolexical
  11. grammaticopragmatic

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