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grammaticalization.

The process of making grammatical.

18 characters7 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɡɹəˌmæ.tɪ.kə.lɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
  1. The process of making grammatical.

    countable · uncountable
  2. 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.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

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

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