grammaticalness
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grammaticalness (uncountable)
- (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
- 1967, Lawrence E. Marks, "Judgments of Grammaticalness of Some English Sentences and Semi-Sentences," The American Journal of Psychology, vol. 80, no. 2, p. 196,
- There appear to be at least two distinct ways to assign levels of grammaticalness to deviant sentences.
- 1967, Lawrence E. Marks, "Judgments of Grammaticalness of Some English Sentences and Semi-Sentences," The American Journal of Psychology, vol. 80, no. 2, p. 196,
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References [edit]
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989. See "grammatical".
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996. See "grammaticality".
