pronominalize

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English

Etymology

From pronominal +‎ -ize.

Verb

pronominalize (third-person singular simple present pronominalizes, present participle pronominalizing, simple past and past participle pronominalized)

  1. (grammar, transitive) To give the effect of a pronoun to; to replace with a pronoun.
    to pronominalize the substantives "person", "people", etc.
    • 1996, Harald Clahsen, Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition:
      That this cannot be attributed to some general tendency to pronominalize subjects and avoid pronominalization of objects

References

pronominalize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.