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Grammaticalization

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…

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Clines of grammaticality – cycles of categorial downgrading

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Views on grammaticalization

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Clines of grammaticality – cycles of categorial downgrading

Unidirectionality hypothesis

Views on grammaticalization

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Grammaticalization

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Edges134
Triples288
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014815
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related to Sources · 181
Grammaticalization → Actes, Aitchison, Alice, Amsterdam, Anette Rosenbach, Anneli Pajunen, Antoine, Approaches, Arbeiten, Arbeitspapiere, Areal, Aspect, Auxiliaries, Beijing Language, Benjamins, Bernd, Bernd Heine, Bochum, Brockmeyer, Burridge
related to history · 16
Grammaticalization → Antoine Meillet, Bopp, Brugmann, French, Gabelentz, Grammar, He, Humboldt, In, L'évolution, Later, Meillet, Meillet's, Schlegel, The, Though
related to Obligatorification · 12
Grammaticalization → Although, Bybee, Critics, Examples, Heine, In, Janda, Kuteva, Lehmann, Obligatorification, Some, That
related to Semantic bleaching · 12
Grammaticalization → English, For, From, He, It, James Matisoff, John Haiman, More, One, Proto-Germanic, Semantic, There
related to Counterexamples (degrammaticalization) · 10
Grammaticalization → According, Although, An, Bill's, He, Hopper, Indeed, Lyle Campbell, Since, Traugott
related to Clines of grammaticality – cycles of categorial downgrading · 9
Grammaticalization → Hopper, However, In, It, Linguists, The, These, This, Traugott's
related to Historical linguistics · 9
Grammaticalization → Diachronically, Hopper, However, In Grammaticalization, It, Moreover, The, Traugott, What Hopper
related to Views on grammaticalization · 7
Grammaticalization → Antoine Meillet, His, Jerzy Kurylowicz, Linguists, Tandis, The, While
related to Unidirectionality hypothesis · 6
Grammaticalization → Bernd Heine, Hopper, In, That, The, Traugott's
related to Phonetic erosion · 5
Grammaticalization → Bernd Heine, Heine, It, Phonetic, Tania Kuteva

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grammatical lexical language meaning change process heine example english traugott phonetic form linguistic words verb verbs forms modern content linguistics

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Grammaticalizationis aunidirectional process0.90text
Grammaticalizationis aprocess leading from lexemes to grammatical formatives0.90text
Grammaticalizationis ametaphorical shift toward the abstract0.90text
auxiliariesinstance ofnouns and verbs which carry certain lexical meaning develop over time into grammatical items0.80text
case markersinstance ofnouns and verbs which carry certain lexical meaning develop over time into grammatical items0.80text
inflectionsinstance ofnouns and verbs which carry certain lexical meaning develop over time into grammatical items0.80text
and sentence connectives.A well-known example of grammaticalization is that of the process in which the lexical cluster let usinstance ofnouns and verbs which carry certain lexical meaning develop over time into grammatical items0.80text
for example ininstance ofnouns and verbs which carry certain lexical meaning develop over time into grammatical items0.80text
grammaticalizationinstance ofwith less emphasis on historical approaches0.80text
Bybee et alinstance oflinguists0.80text
an inflected past tenseinstance oflacking many features of English verbs0.80text
in Modern English usageinstance oflacking many features of English verbs0.80text

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