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): /ɡɹə.ˌmæ.tɪ.kə.lɪ.ˈzeɪ.ʃən/

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

Translations

Translations

• French: grammaticalisation (fr) f
• German: Grammatikalisierung (de) f
• Hungarian: grammatikalizáció
• Russian: грамматикализация (ru) f (grammatikalizacija)

Further reading

• grammaticalization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia