extragrammatical
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Existing separately from a language's grammar.
Example Sentences
- "an extragrammatical influence on speech"
- "Under Bever's proposed approach, only those unacceptable sentences whose badness cannot be explained by any plausible extragrammatical aspect of speech behavior are ungrammatical."
- "A commonly cited limitation on the study of peripheral, extragrammatical and/or ludic processes in morphophonology is the relative difficulty of automated retrieval of their outputs."
Etymology
From extra- + grammatical.