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Grammaticalization (also known as grammatization or grammaticization) is a linguistic process in which words change from representing objects or actions to serving grammatical functions. Grammaticalization can involve content words, such as nouns and verbs, developing into new function words that express grammatical relationships among other words in a…
History, Mechanisms & Clines of grammaticality – cycles of categorial downgrading
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grammaticalization | is a | unidirectional process | 0.90 | text |
| Grammaticalization | is a | process leading from lexemes to grammatical formatives | 0.90 | text |
| Grammaticalization | is a | metaphorical shift toward the abstract | 0.90 | text |
| auxiliaries | instance of | nouns and verbs which carry certain lexical meaning develop over time into grammatical items | 0.80 | text |
| case markers | instance of | nouns and verbs which carry certain lexical meaning develop over time into grammatical items | 0.80 | text |
| inflections | instance of | nouns and verbs which carry certain lexical meaning develop over time into grammatical items | 0.80 | text |
| and sentence connectives.A well-known example of grammaticalization is that of the process in which the lexical cluster let us | instance of | nouns and verbs which carry certain lexical meaning develop over time into grammatical items | 0.80 | text |
| for example in | instance of | nouns and verbs which carry certain lexical meaning develop over time into grammatical items | 0.80 | text |
| grammaticalization | instance of | with less emphasis on historical approaches | 0.80 | text |
| Bybee et al | instance of | linguists | 0.80 | text |
| an inflected past tense | instance of | lacking many features of English verbs | 0.80 | text |
| in Modern English usage | instance of | lacking many features of English verbs | 0.80 | text |
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