Dictionary

grammaticality en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɡɹəˌmæt.ɪˈkæl.ɪ.ti/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree English grammatical Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English grammaticality From grammatical + -ity.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar (being grammatical).
   • One cannot consistently judge the grammaticality of utterances without knowing what grammatical types their constituent morphemes represent. 1963, Peter Lackowski, “Words as Grammatical Primes”, in Language, volume 39, number 2, page 214:
   • Note that we can think of grammaticality as a continuous measure, with a cutoff at zero frequency. That is, some structures are more grammatical than others, when the rules that they use are the more common ones. 2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Preliminaries: Components of Language Structure” (chapter 2), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 25:

Forms

Coordinates

idiomaticity · idiomaticness

Relateds

grammaticity

Synonyms

grammaticalness

Translations (14)

ka გრამატიკული სისწორე (state of obeying the rules of grammar) · ka სისწორე (state of obeying the rules of grammar) · es gramaticalidad (state of obeying the rules of grammar) · ka გრამატიკულობა (state of obeying the rules of grammar) · ru граммати́чность (state of obeying the rules of grammar) · pl gramatyczność (state of obeying the rules of grammar) · nl grammaticaliteit (state of obeying the rules of grammar) · de Grammatikalität (state of obeying the rules of grammar) · fi kieliopillisuus (state of obeying the rules of grammar) · ro gramaticalitate (state of obeying the rules of grammar) · ka გრამატიკულად მართებულობა (state of obeying the rules of grammar) · ka მართებულობა (state of obeying the rules of grammar) · el γραμματικότητα (state of obeying the rules of grammar) · ms kegramatisan (state of obeying the rules of grammar)