grammaticalize (English, verb)
expansion: grammaticalize (third-person singular simple present grammaticalizes, present participle grammaticalizing, simple past and past participle grammaticalized)
Senses:
glosses: To make grammatical.
tags: transitive
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To integrate into a system of grammar; to make (something such as a constraint) an element or rule of grammar, to cause (something) to be required by grammar.
tags: transitive
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To cause (a word, a suffix, etc) to undergo grammaticalization.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: grammaticalizes
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grammaticalizing
tags: participle
present
form: grammaticalized
tags: participle
past
form: grammaticalized
tags: past
form: grammaticalise
tags: alternative