grammaticalness
English
editEtymology
editFrom grammatical + -ness.
Noun
editgrammaticalness (uncountable)
- (of language) Synonym of grammaticality.
- 1967, Lawrence E. Marks, “Judgments of Grammaticalness of Some English Sentences and Semi-Sentences”, in The American Journal of Psychology, volume 80, number 2, page 196:
- There appear to be at least two distinct ways to assign levels of grammaticalness to deviant sentences.
References
edit- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989. See "grammatical".
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996. See "grammaticality".