grammaticality

Etymology

grammatical + -ity

noun

  1. (linguistics) (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
    One cannot consistently judge the grammaticality of utterances without knowing what grammatical types their constituent morphemes represent. 1963, Peter Lackowski, “Words as Grammatical Primes”, in Language, volume 39, number 2, page 214

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