decategorialization

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The loss of morphosyntactic properties that may have been characteristic of a word's initial grammatical class (category), but are not relevant to its current grammatical function; the loss of membership in a certain grammatical class.

Word forms

decategorialization
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