degrammatize

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English

Verb

degrammatize (third-person singular simple present degrammatizes, present participle degrammatizing, simple past and past participle degrammatized)

  1. Synonym of degrammaticalize
    • 2017, Vit Bubenik, Development of Tense/Aspect in Semitic in the Context of Afro-Asiatic Languages, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 8:
      [] lasted for centuries in Indic and Hellenic (in Iranian the sigmatic categories were ultimately degrammatized from phonology by the fricative weakening (s > h > Ø); in Baltic there are no traces of the sigmatic Aorist, []