a nonstandard usage or grammatical construction
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solecisma nonstandard usage or grammatical construction.
hypercorrectiona grammatical, usage or pronunciation mistake made by 'correcting' something that's right to begin with
hypercorrectrefers to a linguistic construction or pronunciation produced by mistaken analogy with standard usage out of a desire to be correct, such as "open widely" or "on behalf of my wife and I"
hypercorrectlyHYPERCORRECT, refers to a linguistic construction or pronunciation produced by mistaken analogy with standard usage out of a desire to be correct, such as "open widely" or "on behalf of my wife and I"
anacoluthona sentence or construction lacking grammatical sequence
anacoluthonsANACOLUTHON, a sentence or construction lacking grammatical sequence
anacoluthonA sentence or construction that lacks grammatical sequence, such as while in the garden, the door banged shut
lexicalizationthe realization of a meaning in a single word or morpheme rather than in a grammatical construction also LEXICALISATION
lexicalisationthe realization of a meaning in a single word or morpheme rather than in a grammatical construction also LEXICALIZATION
lexicalisationsLEXICALISATION, the realization of a meaning in a single word or morpheme rather than in a grammatical construction also LEXICALIZATION
lexicalizationsLEXICALIZATION, the realization of a meaning in a single word or morpheme rather than in a grammatical construction also LEXICALISATION
synesisa grammatical construction in which the inflection or form of a word is conditioned by the meaning rather than the syntax, as for example the plural form have with the singular noun group in the sentence the group have already assembled