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    GRAMMATICALIZATION

    In historical linguistics, grammaticalization (also known as grammatization or grammaticization) is a


    process of language change by which words representing objects and actions (i.e. nouns and verbs)
    become grammatical markers (such as affixes or prepositions). Thus it creates new function words from
    content words, rather than deriving them from existing bound, inflectional constructions. For example,
    the Old English verb willan 'to want', 'to wish' has become the Modern English auxiliary verb will, which
    expresses intention or simply futurity. Some concepts are often grammaticalized, while others, such as
    evidentiality, are not so much.

    For an understanding of this process, a distinction needs to be made between lexical items or content
    words, which carry specific lexical meaning, and grammatical items or function words, which serve
    mainly to express grammatical relationships between the different words in an utterance.
    Grammaticalization has been defined as "the change whereby lexical items and constructions come in
    certain linguistic contexts to serve grammatical functions, and, once grammaticalized, continue to
    develop new grammatical functions". Where grammaticalization takes place, nouns and verbs which
    carry certain lexical meaning develop over time into grammatical items such as auxiliaries, case markers,
    inflections, and sentence connectives.

    A well-known example of grammaticalization is that of the process in which the lexical cluster let us, for
    example in "let us eat", is reduced to let's as in "let's you and me fight". Here, the phrase has lost its
    lexical meaning of "allow us" and has become an auxiliary introducing a suggestion, the pronoun 'us'
    reduced first to a suffix and then to an unanalyzed phoneme.

    In historical linguistics and discourse analysis, grammaticalization is a type of semantic change by which
    (a) a lexical item or construction changes into one that serves a grammatical function, or (b) a
    grammatical item develops a new grammatical function.

    The editors of The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar (2014) offer as a "typical example of
    grammaticalization . . . the development of be + going + to into an auxiliary-like item be going to."

    The term grammaticalization was introduced by French linguist Antoine Meillet in his 1912 study
    "L'evolution des formes grammaticales."

    Recent research on grammaticalization has considered whether (or to what extent) it is possible for a
    grammatical item to become less grammatical over time—a process known as degrammaticalization.

    Nordquist, R. (2019, January 26). Definition and examples of grammaticalization. ThoughtCo.


    https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-grammaticalization-1690822

    Wikipedia contributors. (2024a, January 16). Grammaticalization. Wikipedia.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammaticalization

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