grammaticalization
noun/ɡɹəˌmæ.tɪ.kə.lɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
Etymology From French grammaticalisation, coined in 1912 by the French linguist Antoine Meillet, corresponding to grammatical + -ization.
1
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences The process of making grammatical.
2
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences 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.
- Derived terms
- degrammaticalization, regrammaticalization
- Related terms
- grammarization, grammarize, grammaticalize, grammaticize
- Hyponyms
- semantic bleaching