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grammaticalize
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gram·mat·i·cal·ize  (gr-mt-k-lz)
tr.v. gram·mat·i·cal·ized, gram·mat·i·cal·iz·ing, gram·mat·i·cal·iz·es
To change (a content word) into a function word or a grammatical affix.

gram·mati·cal·i·zation (-l-zshn) n.


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43) Since case endings are usually the grammaticalised "depositaries" of syntactic-semantic functions, these functions must obviously precede them both temporally and logically.
Hearsay evidentiality has become grammaticalised in the Estonian language, occurring in the indirectal category.
If it occurs at the level of grammar, as in DC, it may be viewed as a grammaticalised manifestation of hypercharacterisation (Lehmann 2005: 134).
 
 
 
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