Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to grammaticize
Participle: grammaticized
Gerund: grammaticizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | grammaticize |
| you | grammaticize |
| he;she;it | grammaticizes |
| we | grammaticize |
| you | grammaticize |
| they | grammaticize |
Perfect
| I | have grammaticized |
| you | have grammaticized |
| he;she;it | has grammaticized |
| we | have grammaticized |
| you | have grammaticized |
| they | have grammaticized |
Past
| I | grammaticized |
| you | grammaticized |
| he;she;it | grammaticized |
| we | grammaticized |
| you | grammaticized |
| they | grammaticized |
Pluperfect
| I | had grammaticized |
| you | had grammaticized |
| he;she;it | had grammaticized |
| we | had grammaticized |
| you | had grammaticized |
| they | had grammaticized |
Future
| I | will grammaticize |
| you | will grammaticize |
| he;she;it | will grammaticize |
| we | will grammaticize |
| you | will grammaticize |
| they | will grammaticize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have grammaticized |
| you | will have grammaticized |
| he;she;it | will have grammaticized |
| we | will have grammaticized |
| you | will have grammaticized |
| they | will have grammaticized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | grammaticize |
| you | grammaticize |
| he;she;it | grammaticize |
| we | grammaticize |
| you | grammaticize |
| they | grammaticize |
Perfect
| I | have grammaticized |
| you | have grammaticized |
| he;she;it | have grammaticized |
| we | have grammaticized |
| you | have grammaticized |
| they | have grammaticized |
Imperfect
| I | grammaticized |
| you | grammaticized |
| he;she;it | grammaticized |
| we | grammaticized |
| you | grammaticized |
| they | grammaticized |
Pluperfect
| I | had grammaticized |
| you | had grammaticized |
| he;she;it | had grammaticized |
| we | had grammaticized |
| you | had grammaticized |
| they | had grammaticized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would grammaticize |
| you | would grammaticize |
| he;she;it | would grammaticize |
| we | would grammaticize |
| you | would grammaticize |
| they | would grammaticize |
Perfect
| I | would have grammaticized |
| you | would have grammaticized |
| he;she;it | would have grammaticized |
| we | would have grammaticized |
| you | would have grammaticized |
| they | would have grammaticized |
Imperative
| you | grammaticize |
| we | Let's grammaticize |
| you | grammaticize |
Verbs conjugated like 'grammaticize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'grammaticize'
grammaticise,
grammaticalize,
grammaticalise,
degrammaticalize,
dramatize,
fanaticize,
graecicize,
idiomaticize,
pragmatize,
romanticize,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From grammatic + -ize.
Sample Sentences
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the very first attempt to embody, to arrange, or to grammaticize, this language [a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:]
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... organization (hence its heavy reliance on passives), but does not seem to grammaticize any person-based constraint. In languages with canonical inverse constructions (say Algonquian languages), the non-local person-based constraint is the primary determinant of argument encoding, and ordinary notion of topicality (which is local) plays little role. [2008, Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., Investigations of the SyntaxSemanticsPragmatics Interface, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:]
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Languages differ in the extent to which they grammaticize forms within this constrained inventory of conceptual domains and individual concepts, and this inventory, Talmy argues, amounts to the fundamental conceptual structuring system […] [2008, Peter Robinson, Nick C. Ellis, Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, Routledge, →ISBN:]
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Or to put it another way, the present tense use did not grammaticize. I suggest that the reason for this is that the habitual was more frequently used in the past than the present, since in the present there would be fewer cases […] [1994, William Pagliuca, Perspectives on Grammaticalization, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 247:]
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Clause initial position is a frequent place for anaphoric elements and markers of textual coherence to grammaticize. The grammaticalization of a QP from a disjunction with anaphoric function fits well into this picture. [1996, Chicago Linguistic Society. Meeting, Proceedings from the Main Session of the Chicago Linguistic Society's ... Meeting, →ISBN:]
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Thus it appears that one avenue by which cunnan begins to grammaticize as an auxiliary is determined by the fact that it was already frequent and had already undergone some weakening of its semantic content. [2006, Joan Bybee, Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 342:]