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pronominalizer

pronominalizer noun: a word or construct that pronominalizes.

Noun

pronominalizer (plural pronominalizers)

  1. A word or construct that pronominalizes.
    • Colloquial Malay also uses yang as a relativizer and (pro)nominalizer, but also accepts punya as a pronominalizer (e.g. (Yang) mahal punya untuk abang “The expensive one is for elder brother”).2004, Olga Fischer, Up and down the Cline: The Nature of Grammaticalization, page 165

Forms of pronominalizer

pluralpronominalizers

Origin of pronominalizer

From pronominalize + -er.

Questions about pronominalizer

What does pronominalizer mean?
Pronominalizer means a word or construct that pronominalizes.
What part of speech is pronominalizer?
Pronominalizer is a noun.
What is the plural of pronominalizer?
The plural of pronominalizer is pronominalizers.

Words near pronominalizer in the dictionary

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

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