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degrammaticalization en · NOUN

Etymology

From de- + grammaticalization.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The process of degrammaticalizing, of making less grammatical, or of making ungrammatical.
2. (countable, uncountable) The process of language change by which a morpheme (grammeme) is strengthened to become a content word, or otherwise have more lexical content.

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