Definitions For Grammaticalization

Noun

GRAMMATICALIZATION. (countable and uncountable, plural GRAMMATICALIZATIONs) (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. : Synonym: grammaticization, grammatization

Translations

{{trans-top}} French: grammaticalisation, f German: Grammatikalisierung, f Hungarian: grammatikalizáció Russian: грамматикализация, f

Alternative forms

grammaticalisation

Etymology

from {{bor + en + fr + grammaticalisation}}, coined in 1912 by the french linguist {{w + antoine meillet}}, corresponding to grammatical + ization.

Is Grammaticalization a Scrabble Word?

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