obligatorize

English

Etymology

obligatory +‎ -ize

Verb

obligatorize (third-person singular simple present obligatorizes, present participle obligatorizing, simple past and past participle obligatorized)

1. (linguistics) To make (something) obligatory, or more obligatory.
   • 2006, Cedric Boeckx, Minimalist Essays, →ISBN, page 170:

     At first blush, it would seem that phase theory is unlikely to offer a characterization of the extra conditions that regulate and obligatorize the placement of weak pronouns.