- In
historical linguistics,
grammaticalization (also
known as
grammatization or grammaticization) is a
process of
language change by
which words representing...
- the
fusion of a
preposition plus a
following noun
which has
become grammaticalised. (Compare
English "in
front of", "because of".) Note
however that many...
- from Proto-Celtic to Brittonic, and has
actually become a
synchronic grammaticalised feature called lenition in the
related Goidelic languages (Irish, Scottish...
-
underwent a
period of specialization,
where it
competed with
other grammaticalised phrases.
After verbs such as said, and more
generally in introducing...
-
Primitive Irish period,
though initial mutations likely existed in a non-
grammaticalised form in the
prehistoric era.[full
citation needed]
Contemporary Old...
- [example needed] The ****ure and the
conditional tenses were not yet
fully grammaticalised as inflections; rather, they were
still periphrastic formations of...
-
allophonic alternation between open and
closed syllables, but has
become grammaticalised due to
changes in the
syllable structure of the
languages affected...
- most
Dutch dialects. The
double negative construction has been
fully grammaticalised in
standard Afrikaans and its
proper use
follows a set of
fairly complex...
- of bread' or 'crumb',
similarly to more
standard mollica; it then
grammaticalised in the
meaning 'a little, (in) the least'. It is part of a
series of...
- or adds a
shade of
meaning to it. Subsequently, the
second verb was
grammaticalised further into what is
known as a
light verb,
mainly used to
convey lexical...
