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Meaning of grammaticalization | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2
/ɡɹəˌmæ.tɪ.kə.lɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/

Definitions

  1. The process of making grammatical.
    countable, uncountable
  2. The process of language change by which a word or morpheme is reduced to more of a grammeme than a lexeme, for example the reduction of a content word representing an object or action (a noun or verb) to a clitic.
    countable, uncountable

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CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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