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syntacticization en · NOUN

Etymology

From syntacticize + -ation.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act or process of, or an instance of, syntacticizing.
   • The structures in Figure 4 can be contrasted with those in Figure 5, which represent the syntacticization of the narratively-focused sentence in (37b). 1997, Leo Wanner, Recent Trends in Meaning–Text Theory, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 122:
   • These syntacticizations revolve around the degrees of definiteness ascribed to the grammatical subject and its realization as 'causer'. 1986, Dieter Kastovsky, Aleksander Szwedek, Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries: volumes 1 and 2, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 521:

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