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grammaticalization en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • grə-mă'-tĭ-kə-lĭ-zā'-shən
  • /ɡɹəˌmæ.tɪ.kə.lɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

From French grammaticalisation, coined in 1912 by the French linguist Antoine Meillet, corresponding to grammatical + -ization.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The process of making grammatical.
  2. (countable, uncountable) 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.

Forms

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grammaticalisation alternative lexicographic
grammaticalizations Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

degrammaticalization · regrammaticalization

Hyponyms

semantic bleaching

Relateds

grammaticalize · grammarization · grammaticize · grammarize

Synonyms

grammaticization · grammatization

Translations (14)

pl gramatykalizacja (the process of making grammatical) · ru грамматиза́ция (the process of making grammatical) · pt gramaticalização (the process of making grammatical) · de Grammatikalisierung (the process of making grammatical) · ru грамматикализация (the process of making grammatical) · fr grammaticalisation (the process of making grammatical) · pl gramatykalizacja (the process of language change by which a word or morpheme is reduced to more of a grammeme than a lexeme) · cmn 語法化 /语法化 (the process of making grammatical) · hu grammatikalizáció (the process of making grammatical) · sk gramatikalizácia (the process of making grammatical) · ar التَّحَوُّلُ النَّحْوِيّ (the process of language change by which a word or morpheme is reduced to more of a grammeme than a lexeme) · el γραμματικοποίηση (the process of making grammatical) · es gramaticalización (the process of making grammatical) · cs gramatikalizace (the process of making grammatical)

wikipedia: Antoine Meillet