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degrammaticalisation

degrammaticalisation is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of degrammaticalization.

Meaning of degrammaticalization

Noun

degrammaticalization (countable and uncountable, plural degrammaticalizations)

  1. The process of degrammaticalizing, of making less grammatical, or of making ungrammatical.
  2. The process of language change by which a morpheme (grammeme) is strengthened to become a content word, or otherwise have more lexical content.

Forms of degrammaticalisation

pluraldegrammaticalisations

Questions about degrammaticalisation

What is degrammaticalisation the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Degrammaticalisation is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of degrammaticalization.

Words near degrammaticalisation in the dictionary

  1. degradomes
  2. degradomic
  3. degradomics
  4. degradosome
  5. degradosomes
  6. degrammaticalisation
  7. degrammaticalisations
  8. degrammaticalise
  9. degrammaticalised
  10. degrammaticalises
  11. degrammaticalising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: degrammaticalisation (page history and authors); degrammaticalization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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