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Meaning of "well-formedness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WELL-FORMEDNESS

well-formedness  [ˌwɛlˈfəːmdneəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WELL-FORMEDNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Well-Formedness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WELL-FORMEDNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Grammaticality

In theoretical linguistics, grammaticality is the quality of a linguistic utterance of being grammatically well-formed. An asterisk before a form is a mark that the cited form is ungrammatical. Lyons 1968 defines the concept as "that part of the acceptability of utterances which can be accounted for in terms of the rules", a criterion that complements acceptability for semantic soundness. Generative linguists think that for native speakers of natural languages, grammaticality is a matter of linguistic intuition, a competence learned by language acquisition in childhood. Therefore, generative linguistics strives to predict grammaticality exhaustively. On the other hand, there is a gradual abandonment of grammaticality in favour of acceptability by linguists that stress the social acquisition of language in contrast to innate factors in the tradition of Hopper 1987. Prescriptive grammars of controlled natural languages define grammaticality as a matter of explicit consensus.

Definition of well-formedness in the English dictionary

The definition of well-formedness in the dictionary is the quality of having a pleasing shape, appearance, or structure. Other definition of well-formedness is the quality of being constructed in accordance with the syntactic rules of a particular system; grammatical correctness.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WELL-FORMEDNESS

well-endowed
well-equipped
well-established
well-favoured
well-fed
well-financed
well-finished
well-fitted
well-fixed
well-formed
well-fortified
well-found
well-founded
well-furnished
well-governed
well-groomed
well-grounded
well-guarded
well-handled
well-heeled

WORDS THAT END LIKE WELL-FORMEDNESS

awkwardness
baldness
blindness
boldness
business
fondness
goodness
hardness
indebtedness
kindness
loudness
madness
mindedness
oddness
preparedness
redness
sadness
soundness
tiredness
weirdness
wickedness

Synonyms and antonyms of well-formedness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «well-formedness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WELL-FORMEDNESS

Find out the translation of well-formedness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of well-formedness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «well-formedness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

良构
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

buena formación
570 millions of speakers

English

well-formedness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अच्छी तरह से formedness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جيدا formedness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

хорошо сформированности
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

boa formação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভালভাবে formedness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bien formé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketabahan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wohlgeformt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

適格性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잘 형성됨
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Apik-shapedness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tốt formedness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நன்கு வடிவமைக்கப்பட்ட
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तसेच निर्मिती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

iyi biçimlilik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ben formati
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sensowności
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

добре сформованості
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bine formate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καλά formedness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

goed welgevormdheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

välutformning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

godt formedness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of well-formedness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WELL-FORMEDNESS»

The term «well-formedness» is normally little used and occupies the 122.706 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WELL-FORMEDNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about well-formedness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WELL-FORMEDNESS»

Discover the use of well-formedness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to well-formedness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Grammar and Analogy in Phonotactic Well-formedness Judgments
The results indicate that acceptability ratings are the result of the combination of both mechanisms, grammatical and analogical, acting together.
Shabnam Shademan, 2007
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Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction
As we shall see later, so-called formal semantics takes the view that, as there are rules (or principles) of grammatical well-formedness, so also there are rules (or principles) of semantic well-formedness. Whether this is or is not the case is a ...
John Lyons, 1995
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VDM '91. Formal Software Development Methods. 4th ...
3. Well-formedness. of. Expressions. The static semantics (SS) defines two main predicates, one for acceptance of expressions and one for rejection of expressions. The two predicates could be defined by two separate sets of formulae.
Soren Prehn, W. J. Toetenel, Hans Toetenel, 1991
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Semantics; an Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, ...
Presupposition and relative well-formedness" GEORGE LAKOFF I would like to discuss a phenomenon that I think is fairly obvious, but which has been inadequately discussed in the past, and has therefore led to great confusion. It is often ...
Danny D. Steinberg, Leon A. Jakobovits, 1971
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Optimality Theory
Syllabic well-formedness will turn out to be yet another instantiation of the basic conflict between faithfulness and markedness (or structural well-formedness). The range of syllablc types allowed by individual languages arise by interactions of ...
Rene Kager, 1999
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Morphology: Morphology: its relation to phonology
To solve this problem, we could, of course, require well-formedness in the P rules , just as in §3.3 we solved a similar problem in the MS rules by requiring well- formedness. But then, to check a grammar for well-formedness, we must not only  ...
Francis Katamba, 2004
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Using XML
These conditions are called well-formedness constraints, and if the document fails to meet these constraints, it is not an XML document. This can lead to some confusion when working with XML, as you may have a document which seems to  ...
‎2002
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Altova® XMLSpy® 2011 User & Reference Manual
F7 The XML | Check well-formedness (F7) command checks the active document for well-formedness by the definitions of the XML 1.0 specification. Every XML document must be well-formed. XMLSpy checks for well-formedness whenever a  ...
Altova, 2010
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Phonology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics
To solve this problem, we could, of course, require well-formedness in the P rules , just as in §3.3 we solved a similar problem in the MS rules by requiring well- formedness. But then, to check a grammar for well-formedness, we must not only  ...
Charles W. Kreidler, 2001
10
Altova® Authentic® Desktop 2010 User & Reference Manual
The XML menu contains commands commonly used when working with XML documents. Among the most frequently used XML tasks are checks for the well- formedness of documents and validity of XML documents. Commands for these tasks ...
Altova

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WELL-FORMEDNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term well-formedness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Using Discussion Pedagogy to Enhance Oral and Written …
Additionally, Hidi and Hildyard (1983) found that counter to earlier research, the "semantic well-formedness and the structural organization of the written ... «RedOrbit, Sep 08»
2
Refactoring HTML: Well-Formedness
The very first step in moving markup into modern form is to make it well-formed. Well-formedness is the basis of the huge and incredibly powerful XML tool chain. «HTML Goodies, Jun 08»
3
Which XML Technologies Are Beautiful?
Some beautiful aspects of XML are the way it gets UNICODE right, the way it separates well-formedness from validity, and the aesthetic pleasure of open and ... «XML.com, Apr 07»
4
HTML or XHTML? Fact From Fiction
I'm guessing it's probably just a misinterpretation of the well-formedness ... purpose of the well-formedness constraints expressed in the XML Recommendation). «HTML Goodies, Apr 07»
5
Handling Atom Text and Content Constructs
... used only in content elements. There are no limits to the allowed representation (as long as the well-formedness of the Atom document is not compromised). «XML.com, Dec 05»
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A Distributed Discussion with Elliotte Rusty Harold
This means that Java implementations have to do quite a bit more work to verify well-formedness than they would if Java actually used Unicode characters. «OnJava.com, Dec 04»
7
Not Evil, Just Smelly
... just as the notion of validity, and to a lesser degree, well-formedness don't reflect processing reality in all cases either. I guess I don't see the conflict between ... «XML.com, Oct 04»
8
XML and Dreamweaver
Dreamweaver MX 2004 is capable of checking the file for well-formedness. The Validation tab of the Results panel allows a check for both well-formed XML and ... «XML.com, Jun 04»
9
.NET Tools for Working with XML
It does, however, enforce the rules of well-formed XML, which makes it a good well-formedness parser. Because of its speed, it is also well-suited for looking ... «informIT, May 04»

REFERENCE
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