Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

decategorialize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: de-cat-e-go-ri-al-ize
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

7

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To undergo decategorialization.

Example Sentences

"[…] in which the lexeme begins to "decategorialize" (Heine et al. 1991), i.e. to lose the morphosyntactic behaviors characteristic of its original category. For example, in the English relator noun construction on top of NP, top, while clearly a noun […]"
"A grammaticalizing item decategorializes (Hopper 1991), losing membership of its source category. As a result of high frequency, it may become independently entrenched (Bybee 2006), receiving a kind of categorial autonomy, […]"

Inflected Forms

decategorializes (present, singular) decategorializing (participle, present) decategorialized (participle, past) decategorialized (past)

Questions

What does decategorialize mean?: To undergo decategorialization.

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