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): /ɡɹəˌmæ.tɪ.kə.lɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/

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Noun

grammaticalization (countable and uncountable, plural grammaticalizations)

1. (linguistics) The process of making grammatical.
2. (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

Hyponyms

• semantic bleaching

Derived terms

• degrammaticalization

Related terms

• grammarization
• grammarize
• grammaticalize
• grammaticize

Translations

the process of making grammatical

Chinese: Mandarin: 語法化 / 语法化 (yǔfǎhuà) Czech: gramatikalizace f French: grammaticalisation (fr) f German: Grammatikalisierung (de) f Greek: γραμματικοποίηση (el) f (grammatikopoíisi) Hungarian: grammatikalizáció Polish: gramatykalizacja (pl) f Portuguese: gramaticalização f Russian: грамматикализация (ru) f (grammatikalizacija), грамматиза́ция (ru) f (grammatizácija) Slovak: gramatikalizácia f Spanish: gramaticalización f

the process of language change by which a word or morpheme is reduced to more of a grammeme than a lexeme

Arabic: التَّحَوُّلُ النَّحْوِيّ (at-taḥawwulu an-naḥwiyy)

Further reading

• grammaticalization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia