grammaticality
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
grammatical + -ity
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
grammaticality (countable and uncountable, plural grammaticalities)
- (linguistics) (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
- 1963, Peter Lackowski, “Words as Grammatical Primes”, in Language, volume 39, number 2, page 214:
- One cannot consistently judge the grammaticality of utterances without knowing what grammatical types their constituent morphemes represent.
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Translations[edit]
state of obeying the rules of grammar
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References[edit]
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- Random House Webster’s Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.