syntacticization

English

Etymology

syntacticize +‎ -ation

Noun

syntacticization (countable and uncountable, plural syntacticizations)

1. The act or process of, or an instance of, syntacticizing.
   • 1986, Dieter Kastovsky, Aleksander Szwedek, Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries: volumes 1 and 2, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 521:

     These syntacticizations revolve around the degrees of definiteness ascribed to the grammatical subject and its realization as 'causer'.

   • 1997, Leo Wanner, Recent Trends in Meaning–Text Theory, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 122:

     The structures in Figure 4 can be contrasted with those in Figure 5, which represent the syntacticization of the narratively-focused sentence in (37b).