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Meaning of grammaticalization in English:

grammaticalization

noun

(also British grammaticalisation)
Linguistics

See grammaticalize

‘I have to admit that her derivation probably wouldn't make good news copy, although it is a process that parallels the similar grammaticalization of gonna.’
  • ‘Language changes like that, when a word with a concrete meaning becomes a word that only expresses a function of grammar, it is called grammaticalization.’
  • ‘In my syntax seminar the other day we were discussing grammaticalisation in French negation.’