degrammaticize

Example Sentences

• "... 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."
• "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 ..."
• "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 ..."
• "Otherwise this may be a further argument for the Rooth-von Fintel program of degrammaticizing the phenomena of focus-sensitivity."
• "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 ..."
• "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."