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pronominalize

pronominalize verb: to give the effect of a pronoun to; to replace with a pronoun.

Verb

pronominalize (third-person singular simple present pronominalizes, present participle pronominalizing, simple past and past participle pronominalized)

  1. (transitive) To give the effect of a pronoun to; to replace with a pronoun.
    • to pronominalize the substantives "person", "people", etc.
    • That this cannot be attributed to some general tendency to pronominalize subjects and avoid pronominalization of objects1996, Harald Clahsen, Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition

Forms of pronominalize

third-person singular presentpronominalizes
present participlepronominalizing
past participlepronominalized
pastpronominalized

Origin of pronominalize

From pronominal + -ize.

Words formed from pronominalize

Questions about pronominalize

What does pronominalize mean?
Pronominalize means to give the effect of a pronoun to; to replace with a pronoun.
What part of speech is pronominalize?
Pronominalize is a verb.
What is the past tense of pronominalize?
The past tense of pronominalize is pronominalized.

Words near pronominalize in the dictionary

  1. pronominal verbs
  2. pronominalisation
  3. pronominality
  4. pronominalization
  5. pronominalizations
  6. pronominalize
  7. pronominalized
  8. pronominalizer
  9. pronominalizers
  10. pronominalizes
  11. pronominalizing

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