extragrammatical

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From extra- +‎ grammatical.

Adjective[edit]

extragrammatical (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Existing separately from a language's grammar.
    an extragrammatical influence on speech
    • 1996, Carson T. Schütze, The Empirical Base of Linguistics: Grammaticality Judgments and Linguistic Methodology, Chicago, I.L.: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 31:
      Under Bever's proposed approach, only those unacceptable sentences whose badness cannot be explained by any plausible extragrammatical aspect of speech behavior are ungrammatical.
    • 2018, “A corpus study of phonological factors in novel English blends”, in Proceedings of the 2018 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association[1], Ottawa: Canadian Linguistic Association, archived from the original on 2024-01-17, page 1:
      A commonly cited limitation on the study of peripheral, extragrammatical and/or ludic processes in morphophonology is the relative difficulty of automated retrieval of their outputs.