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grammaticalisation

grammaticalisation is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of grammaticalization.

Meaning of grammaticalization

Noun

grammaticalization (countable and uncountable, plural grammaticalizations)

  1. The process of making grammatical.
  2. 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.

Forms of grammaticalisation

pluralgrammaticalisations

Questions about grammaticalisation

What is grammaticalisation the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Grammaticalisation is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of grammaticalization.

Words near grammaticalisation in the dictionary

  1. grammatical moods
  2. grammatical person
  3. grammatical persons
  4. grammatical word
  5. grammatical words
  6. grammaticalisation
  7. grammaticalisations
  8. grammaticalise
  9. grammaticalised
  10. grammaticalises
  11. grammaticalising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grammaticalisation (page history and authors); grammaticalization (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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