pronominalize

English

Etymology

From pronominal +‎ -ize.

Verb

pronominalize (third-person singular simple present pronominalizes, present participle pronominalizing, simple past and past participle pronominalized)

1. (grammar, transitive) To give the effect of a pronoun to; to replace with a pronoun.

   to pronominalize the substantives "person", "people", etc.

   • 1996, Harald Clahsen, Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition:

     That this cannot be attributed to some general tendency to pronominalize subjects and avoid pronominalization of objects

Derived terms

• pronominalizer

References

“pronominalize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.