grammaticality

plural grammaticalities

1. countableuncountablehuman sciences(of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar (being grammatical).

   One cannot consistently judge the grammaticality of utterances without knowing what grammatical types their constituent morphemes represent.

   1963, Peter Lackowski, “Words as Grammatical Primes”, in Language, volume 39, number 2, page 214

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   Note that we can think of grammaticality as a continuous measure, with a cutoff at zero frequency. That is, some structures are more grammatical than others, when the rules that they use are the more common ones.

   2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Preliminaries: Components of Language Structure” (chapter 2), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 25

   Synonyms: grammaticalness