Meanings
nounsyntacticization (countable and uncountable, plural syntacticizations)
plural syntacticizations
- countableuncountableThe act or process of, or an instance of, syntacticizing.
These syntacticizations revolve around the degrees of definiteness ascribed to the grammatical subject and its realization as 'causer'.
1986, Dieter Kastovsky, Aleksander Szwedek, Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries: volumes 1 and 2, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 5211 more example
The structures in Figure 4 can be contrasted with those in Figure 5, which represent the syntacticization of the narratively-focused sentence in (37b).
1997, Leo Wanner, Recent Trends in Meaning–Text Theory, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 122
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