grammaticalization

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The process of making grammatical.
The process of language change by which a word or morpheme is reduced to more of a grammeme than a lexeme, for example the reduction of a content word representing an object or action (a noun or verb) to a clitic.

grə-mă'-tĭ-kə-lĭ-zā'-shən /ɡɹəˌmæ.tɪ.kə.lɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sapaa-grammaticalization.wav

grammaticalization grammaticalizations grammaticalisation

From French grammaticalisation, coined in 1912 by the French linguist Antoine Meillet, corresponding to grammatical + -ization.

grammaticization grammatization

grammarization grammarize grammaticalize grammaticize

degrammaticalization regrammaticalization

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