Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

obligatorification

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: obli-ga-tori-fi-ca-tion
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act or process of, or an instance of, (something) becoming or being made (more) obligatory, especially as part of the process of grammaticalization.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Following Jakobson 1959 [1972] and Lehmann 1982 [1995], grammaticalization for most observers always entails obligatorification. As Jakobson memorably put it, languages differ not in what they can say, but in what they must: [...]"
"Mandarin and Khmer and possibly other Southeast Asian languages may be characterized as resisting obligatorification of their meaningful morphology. Could this have anything to do with their penchant for decorative morphology?"

Etymology

From obligatory + -ification.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: obligatory
Suffix: -ification

Usage

Inflected Forms

obligatorifications (plural)

Synonyms

obligatorization

Questions

What does obligatorification mean?: The act or process of, or an instance of, (something) becoming or being made (more) obligatory, especially as part of the process of grammaticalization.
Where does obligatorification come from?: From obligatory + -ification.

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