syntacticization

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English

Etymology

From syntacticize +‎ -ation.

Noun

syntacticization (countable and uncountable, plural syntacticizations)

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