extragrammatical

English

Etymology

From extra- +‎ grammatical.

Adjective

extragrammatical (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Existing separately from a language's grammar.

   an extragrammatical influence on speech

   • 1996, Carson T. Schütze, The Empirical Base of Linguistics: Grammaticality Judgments and Linguistic Methodology, Chicago, I.L.: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 31:

     Under Bever's proposed approach, only those unacceptable sentences whose badness cannot be explained by any plausible extragrammatical aspect of speech behavior are ungrammatical.

   • 2018, “A corpus study of phonological factors in novel English blends”, in Proceedings of the 2018 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association‎^[1], Ottawa: Canadian Linguistic Association, archived from the original on 2024-01-17, page 1:

     A commonly cited limitation on the study of peripheral, extragrammatical and/or ludic processes in morphophonology is the relative difficulty of automated retrieval of their outputs.