grammaticality

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɡɹə.mæt.ɪˌkæl.ɪ.ti/, X-SAMPA: /"gr@.m{t.I%k{l.I.ti/

Noun

grammaticality (uncountable)

1. (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
   • 1963, Peter Lackowski, “Words as Grammatical Primes”, Language, vol. 39, no. 2, p. 214,

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

Synonyms

• grammaticalness

Translations

state of obeying the rules of grammar

• Dutch: grammaticaliteit (nl)
• Finnish: kieliopillisuus (fi)
• Romanian: gramaticalitate (ro)

• Russian: грамматичность (ru) (grammat’íčnost’)
• Spanish: gramaticalidad (es) f

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster’s Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.