obligatorize
English
editEtymology
editFrom obligatory + -ize.
Verb
editobligatorize (third-person singular simple present obligatorizes, present participle obligatorizing, simple past and past participle obligatorized)
- (linguistics) To make (something) obligatory, or more obligatory.
- 2006, Cedric Boeckx, Minimalist Essays, →ISBN, page 170:
- At first blush, it would seem that phase theory is unlikely to offer a characterization of the extra conditions that regulate and obligatorize the placement of weak pronouns.