English Explanatory Dictionary

degrammaticalization

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The process of degrammaticalizing, of making less grammatical, or of making ungrammatical.
  2. The process of language change by which a morpheme (grammeme) is strengthened to become a content word, or otherwise have more lexical content.

Word forms

degrammaticalization degrammaticalizations

Etymology

From de- + grammaticalization.

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