grammaticalization

About 0.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The process of making grammatical.
2. noun 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.

Similar words

obligatorification syntacticization lexicalization nominalization latinization passivization formalization literalization laryngealization conjugation

Often followed by

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