degrammaticalization
Meaning
- noun The process of degrammaticalizing, of making less grammatical, or of making ungrammatical.
- noun The process of language change by which a morpheme (grammeme) is strengthened to become a content word, or otherwise have more lexical content.
Similar words
delexicalization deformalisation deglorification deproblematization decomplexification dedramatization demorification destandardization deinstrumentalization deglamorization
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