Decategorialize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Decategorialize is a verb meaning To undergo decategorialization.
Meaning
To undergo decategorialization.
Example Sentences
A grammaticalizing item decategorializes (Hopper 1991), losing membership of its source category. As a result of high frequency, it may become independently entrenched (Bybee 2006), receiving a kind of categorial autonomy, […]
[…] in which the lexeme begins to "decategorialize" (Heine et al. 1991), i.e. to lose the morphosyntactic behaviors characteristic of its original category. For example, in the English relator noun construction on top of NP, top, while clearly a noun […]
Word Forms
- decategorializes
- decategorializing
- decategorialized
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include decategorialise, uncategorize, decategorize, decategorise, uncategorise, disclassify.
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