Change (an element) from being one having lexical meaning into one having a largely grammatical function.
‘we cannot assume that such notions will necessarily be grammaticalized in the structure of any particular language’
‘The lexical items that become grammaticalized must first serve commonly needed discourse functions.’
‘The fact that concepts are grammaticalized differently in different languages is a major problem for translation, especially for machine translation.’
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