come to be en · VERB
Meanings
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To come about; to come into being
All naturally occurring dialects of any language have strong communicative value: That’s how they came to be.
2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Preliminaries: Components of Language Structure” (chapter 2), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 23:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| came to be | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| comes to be | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| come to be | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| coming to be | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |