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pronominalizer en · NOUN

Etymology

From pronominalize + -er.

Meanings

  1. A word or construct that pronominalizes.
    • Colloquial Malay also uses yang as a relativizer and (pro)nominalizer, but also accepts punya as a pronominalizer (e.g. (Yang) mahal punya untuk abang “The expensive one is for elder brother”). 2004, Olga Fischer, Up and down the Cline: The Nature of Grammaticalization, page 165:

Forms

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pronominalizers Number=Plur lexicographic