Grammaticalness vs Grammaticality - What's the difference?
grammaticalness | grammaticality | Synonyms |
(of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
* 1967', Lawrence E. Marks, "Judgments of '''Grammaticalness of Some English Sentences and Semi-Sentences," ''The American Journal of Psychology , vol. 80, no. 2, p. 196:
(of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
* 1963 , Peter Lackowski, “Words as Grammatical Primes”, Language , vol. 39, no. 2, p. 214:
Grammaticality is a synonym of grammaticalness.
In of language terms the difference between grammaticalness and grammaticality
is that grammaticalness is the state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness while grammaticality is the state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.grammaticalness
English
Noun
(-)- There appear to be at least two distinct ways to assign levels of grammaticalness to deviant sentences.
Synonyms
*grammaticalityReferences
*Oxford English Dictionary'', 2nd ed., 1989. ''See "grammatical". *Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary'', 1987-1996. ''See "grammaticality".grammaticality
English
Noun
- One cannot consistently judge the grammaticality of utterances without knowing what grammatical types their constituent morphemes represent.