decategorialize
Definitions
Examples
“[…] in which the lexeme begins to "decategorialize" (Heine et al. 1991), i.e. to lose⟳ the morphosyntactic behaviors characteristic of its original category. For example, in the English relator noun construction on top of NP, top, while clearly a noun […]”
“A grammaticalizing item decategorializes (Hopper 1991), losing membership of its source category. As a result⟳ of high frequency, it may become⟳ independently entrenched (Bybee 2006), receiving a kind of categorial autonomy, […]”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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