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obligatorifications

obligatorifications is the plural of obligatorification.

Meaning of obligatorification

Noun

obligatorification (countable and uncountable, plural obligatorifications)

  1. The act or process of, or an instance of, (something) becoming or being made (more) obligatory, especially as part of the process of grammaticalization.
    • Following Jakobson 1959 [1972] and Lehmann 1982 [1995], grammaticalization for most observers always entails obligatorification. As Jakobson memorably put it, languages differ not in what they can say, but in what they must: [...]2011, John Haiman, Cambodian: Khmer, →ISBN, page 137

Questions about obligatorifications

What is obligatorifications the plural of?
Obligatorifications is the plural of obligatorification.

Words near obligatorifications in the dictionary

  1. obligative
  2. obligativeness
  3. obligato
  4. obligator
  5. obligatorification
  6. obligatorifications
  7. obligatorily
  8. obligatoriness
  9. obligatorization
  10. obligatorizations
  11. obligatorize

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