ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Degrammaticalization

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Degrammaticalization is a noun meaning The process of degrammaticalizing, of making less grammatical, or of making ungrammatical.

Meaning

The process of degrammaticalizing, of making less grammatical, or of making ungrammatical.

More Meanings

  1. (linguistics) The process of language change by which a morpheme (grammeme) is strengthened to become a content word, or otherwise have more lexical content.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include delexicalization, deformalisation, deglorification, deproblematization, decomplexification, dedramatization.

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