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grammatise

grammatise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of grammatize.

Meaning of grammatize

Verb

grammatize (third-person singular simple present grammatizes, present participle grammatizing, simple past and past participle grammatized)

  1. Synonym of grammaticalize (“to make grammatical”).
    • "Every language," says Macaulay, "throws light on every other. We acknowledge, too, that the great body of our countrymen learn to grammatize their English by means of their Latin. This, however, proves, not the usefulness of their Latin, but ...1899, The Arena, page 42
    Synonyms:
    grammaticalize
  2. Synonym of grammaticalize (“to to cause (something) to be required by the rules of grammar”).
    • Grosu notes that different languages grammatize different constraints — English, for instance, has grammatized a constraint against complex prenominal modifiers, while German has not.1973, Working Papers in Linguistics
    Synonyms:
    grammaticalize
  3. (rare) Synonym of grammaticalize (“to cause to undergo grammatization/grammaticalization”).
    • For example, it is sometimes suggested that German has a pair of verbal suffixes -l/-r which impart durative, or rather iterative, meaning on a verb […] Suffixation with -l/-r is thus not an instance of a productive morphosyntactic contrast, and cannot be said to grammatize durativity (or...2007, Andrea Luise Wilhelm, Telicity and Durativity: A Study of Aspect in Dëne Suliné (Chipewyan) and German, Routledge, →ISBN, page 6
    Synonyms:
    grammaticalize

Forms of grammatise

third-person singular presentgrammatises
present participlegrammatising
past participlegrammatised
pastgrammatised

Questions about grammatise

What is grammatise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Grammatise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of grammatize.

Words near grammatise in the dictionary

  1. grammatid
  2. grammatids
  3. grammatisation
  4. grammatisations
  5. grammatischer Wechsel
  6. grammatise
  7. grammatised
  8. grammatises
  9. grammatising
  10. grammatist
  11. grammatistic

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