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extragrammatical en · ADJ

Etymology

From extra- + grammatical.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Existing separately from a language's grammar.
    • Under Bever's proposed approach, only those unacceptable sentences whose badness cannot be explained by any plausible extragrammatical aspect of speech behavior are ungrammatical. 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:
    • 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. 2018, “A corpus study of phonological factors in novel English blends”, in Proceedings of the 2018 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Ottawa: Canadian Linguistic Association, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2024, page 1:
    • an extragrammatical influence on speech