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grammaticalizations

grammaticalizations is the plural 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.

Questions about grammaticalizations

What is grammaticalizations the plural of?
Grammaticalizations is the plural of grammaticalization.

Words near grammaticalizations in the dictionary

  1. grammaticalising
  2. grammaticalities
  3. grammaticality
  4. grammaticalizable
  5. grammaticalization
  6. grammaticalizations
  7. grammaticalize
  8. grammaticalized
  9. grammaticalizes
  10. grammaticalizing
  11. grammatically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grammaticalizations (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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