grammaticalization

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Synonyms: grammaticalisation

Antonyms: grammaticalisation

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|linguistics}} The process of making [[grammatical]].
2. {{lb|en|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]].

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