Etymology

grammaticalization

Today it means: The process of making grammatical. Full definition →

French grammaticalisation
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  1. French · borrowed fromgrammaticalisation
  2. English todaygrammaticalization

From French grammaticalisation, coined in 1912 by the French linguist Antoine Meillet, corresponding to grammatical + -ization.

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