grammaticality

English

Etymology

From grammatical +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡɹəˌmæt.ɪˈkæl.ɪ.ti/

Noun

grammaticality (countable and uncountable, plural grammaticalities)

1. (linguistics) (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar (being grammatical).

   Synonym: grammaticalness

   Coordinate terms: idiomaticity, idiomaticness

   • 1963, Peter Lackowski, “Words as Grammatical Primes”, in Language, volume 39, number 2, page 214:

     One cannot consistently judge the grammaticality of utterances without knowing what grammatical types their constituent morphemes represent.

Related terms

• grammaticity

 

Translations

state of obeying the rules of grammar

• Dutch: grammaticaliteit
• Finnish: kieliopillisuus
• Georgian: მართებულობა (martebuloba), გრამატიკულად მართებულობა (gramaṭiḳulad martebuloba), სისწორე (sisc̣ore), გრამატიკული სისწორე (gramaṭiḳuli sisc̣ore), გრამატიკულობა (gramaṭiḳuloba)
• German: Grammatikalität (de) f
• Greek: γραμματικότητα f (grammatikótita)
• Malay: kegramatisan
• Romanian: gramaticalitate
• Russian: граммати́чность (ru) (grammatíčnostʹ)
• Spanish: gramaticalidad (es) f

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster’s Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.