grammaticalization
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
grammaticalization
- (linguistics) The process of making grammatical.
- (linguistics) 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.
- Synonyms: grammaticization, grammatization
- French: grammaticalisation
- German: Grammatikalisierung
- Russian: грамматикализация
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