degrammaticalize
verbEtymology From de- + grammaticalize.
1
To make less grammatical or not grammatical.
2
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences To cause (an inflectional ending, etc) to undergo degrammaticalization.
- Using diachronic evidence from Swedish, I will show that inflectional endings may be maintained as “less cumulative” inflections, or even degrammaticalize into a derivational suffix or a clitic.2002, Ilse Wischer, Gabriele Diewald, New Reflections on Grammaticalization, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 45:
- […] try to provide empirical evidence for the thesis that inflectional affixes can degrammaticalize into a derivational suffix or a clitic.2004, Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association: