pronominalize

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pronominalize (third-person singular simple present pronominalizes, present participle pronominalizing, simple past and past participle pronominalized)

(transitive) To give the effect of a pronoun to.
to pronominalize the substantives "person", "people", etc.
- 1996, Harald Clahsen, Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition:
  That this cannot be attributed to some general tendency to pronominalize subjects and avoid pronominalization of objects

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“pronominalize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.