degrammaticize

present singular third person degrammaticizes · participle present degrammaticizing · participle past degrammaticized · past degrammaticized

1. Synonym of degrammaticalize.

   Otherwise this may be a further argument for the Rooth-von Fintel program of degrammaticizing the phenomena of focus-sensitivity.

   1999, Peter Bosch, Rob van der Sandt, Focus: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 220

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   ... the new clusters, as in 21 d, but cannot affect stems followed by a pronominal suffix because of the continued intervening presence of the old short suffixal vowels, or their degrammaticized reflexes, in original word-internal positions.

   1988, Journal of Afroasiatic Languages

   It seems more likely that the "vowel-final target" motivation conspired with an second motivation — possibly simply a tendency to make words bulkier by accruing a "degrammaticized" augment. Synchronically, the nominative suffix in Kayardild ...

   1995, Nicholas Evans, A Grammar of Kayardild: With Historical-comparative Notes on Tangkic, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 138

   This markedness relation together with a preference for 'degrammaticizing' constructional schemas for causal clause combining in conversation conspire to favor only one of the intonational and sequential patterns with because, thus ...

   1996, Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association

   The studied integrity encourages, I think, a momentary degrammaticizing of the hierarchies of the sentence. Since the phrases are usually of similar length visually, and are given identical prominence by their isolation in the line, the reader is ...

   2001, Chris Beyers, A history of free verse, Univ of Arkansas Pr, →ISBN

   Privatization is accomplished by "degrammaticizing" the wishes, which is to say, by removing their expression from the grammar of ordinary language and banishing them to a prelinguistic realm, namely, the unconscious.

   2004, Fred Rush, The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 94

   Synonyms: degrammaticalize