grammatize

English

Verb

grammatize (third-person singular simple present grammatizes, present participle grammatizing, simple past and past participle grammatized)

1. Synonym of grammaticalize (“to make grammatical”).
   • 1899, The Arena, page 42:

     "Every language," says Macaulay, "throws light on every other. We acknowledge, too, that the great body of our countrymen learn to grammatize their English by means of their Latin. This, however, proves, not the usefulness of their Latin, but ...

   • 1911, William Winslow Hall, English Poesy: An Induction, page 108:

     A poet must learn to speak, to write, to grammatize, before he can impart his emotion; he must learn a lot about the universe before he can have anything of emotional worth to impart; and he must learn some sort of prosodical technique from ...

2. Synonym of grammaticalize (“to to cause (something) to be required by the rules of grammar”).
   • 1973, Working Papers in Linguistics:

     Grosu notes that different languages grammatize different constraints — English, for instance, has grammatized a constraint against complex prenominal modifiers, while German has not.

   • 2007, Andrea Luise Wilhelm, Telicity and Durativity: A Study of Aspect in Dëne Suliné (Chipewyan) and German, Routledge, →ISBN:

     I predict that some languages grammatize both notions, some grammatize only one of the two, and some grammatize neither (see Chapter Six). Such a view also sheds considerable light on the debate about the status of durativity: durativity is  ...

3. (rare) Synonym of grammaticalize (“to cause to undergo grammatization/grammaticalization”).
   • 2007, Andrea Luise Wilhelm, Telicity and Durativity: A Study of Aspect in Dëne Suliné (Chipewyan) and German, Routledge, →ISBN, page 6:

     For example, it is sometimes suggested that German has a pair of verbal suffixes -l/-r which impart durative, or rather iterative, meaning on a verb […] Suffixation with -l/-r is thus not an instance of a productive morphosyntactic contrast, and cannot be said to grammatize durativity (or iterativity).

   • 2019, Andrii Danylenko, Motoki Nomachi, Slavic on the Language Map of Europe: Historical and Areal-Typological Dimensions, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 414:

     […] nouns and partly so in the case of genericity, which could have helped to grammatize Ø as an article of its own.