grammaticality
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From grammatical + -ity.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]grammaticality (countable and uncountable, plural grammaticalities)
- (linguistics) (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
- 1963, Peter Lackowski, “Words as Grammatical Primes”, in Language, volume 39, number 2, page 214:
- One cannot consistently judge the grammaticality of utterances without knowing what grammatical types their constituent morphemes represent.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]state of obeying the rules of grammar
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- Random House Webster’s Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.