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
- (countable, uncountable) The process of making grammatical.
- (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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| grammaticalisation | alternative | lexicographic | |
| grammaticalizations | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
degrammaticalization · regrammaticalization
Hyponyms
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)