grammaticalization
English
Alternative forms
- grammaticalisation
Etymology
From French grammaticalisation, coined in 1912 by the French linguist Antoine Meillet, corresponding to grammatical + -ization.
Pronunciation
- enPR: grə-mă'-tĭ-kə-lĭ-zā'-shən, IPA(key): /ɡɹə.ˌmæ.tɪ.kə.lɪ.ˈzeɪ.ʃən/
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.
- Synonyms: grammaticization, grammatization
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Further reading
grammaticalization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia