univerbations

Noun

univerbation (countable and uncountable, plural univerbations)

1. The diachronic process of forming a new single word from a fixed expression of several words.
   • Lexicalization and grammaticization compared In Section 3, it was pointed out that there are two kinds of lexicalization which can be usefully compared with grammaticization, i.e. fossilization and univerbation. The discussion and examples in this section will be confined to the more general and...2004, Walter Bisang, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Björn Wiemer, What makes Grammaticalization?: A Look from its Fringes and its Components, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 34
2. A new word formed by this process.
   • The two suppletive pronominal paradigms *se/o- ~ *te/o- ‘that’ and *i-/ei̯- ~ *e/o- ‘this’ are continued in many IE [Indo-European] languages, both as simplicia and as univerbations with other pronouns and adverbs[.]2025 May, Sergio Neri, “On the origin and development of the Albanian demonstratives”, in Journal of Historical Linguistics, volume 15, number 2, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 320