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obligatorification

noun

Etymology

From obligatory + -ification.

  1. derived from obligatōrius
  2. inherited from obligatorie
  3. formed as obligatorification — “obligatory + -ification”

Definitions

  1. The act or process of, or an instance of, (something) becoming or being made (more)…

    The act or process of, or an instance of, (something) becoming or being made (more) obligatory, especially as part of the process of grammaticalization.

    • Following Jakobson 1959 [1972] and Lehmann 1982 [1995], grammaticalization for most observers always entails obligatorification. As Jakobson memorably put it, languages differ not in what they can say, but in what they must: [...]
    • Mandarin and Khmer and possibly other Southeast Asian languages may be characterized as resisting obligatorification of their meaningful morphology. Could this have anything to do with their penchant for decorative morphology?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for obligatorification. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA