degrammaticize

English

Verb

degrammaticize (third-person singular simple present degrammaticizes, present participle degrammaticizing, simple past and past participle degrammaticized)

Synonym of degrammaticalize
- 1988, Journal of Afroasiatic Languages:
  ... 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.
- 1995, Nicholas Evans, A Grammar of Kayardild: With Historical-comparative Notes on Tangkic, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 138:
  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 ...
- 1996, Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association:
  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 ...
- 1999, Peter Bosch, Rob van der Sandt, Focus: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 220:
  Otherwise this may be a further argument for the Rooth-von Fintel program of degrammaticizing the phenomena of focus-sensitivity.
- 2001, Chris Beyers, A history of free verse, Univ of Arkansas Pr, →ISBN:
  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 ...
- 2004, Fred Rush, The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 94:
  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.
- 2013, David Held, Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 468:
  The degrammaticized and imagistically compressed language of the dream provides', he holds, “some clues to an excommunication model of this sort. . . . The splitting-off of individual symbols from public communication would mean at the ...