grammaticalityn.
/ɡrəˌmatɪˈkalɪti/ Linguistics.
The quality of being grammatical (sense 3).
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > [noun] > grammatical rule or principle > adherence to
grammaticalness1649
well-formedness1947
grammaticality1961
1961 A. A. Hill in Word 17 1 (title) Grammaticality.
1965 Language 41 403 Within such a framework, deviance as well as grammaticality can tentatively be made explicit.
1968 J. Lyons Introd. Theoret. Linguistics ix. 422 Grammaticality is that part of the acceptability of utterances which can be accounted for in terms of the rules.
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