grammaticalize

== English == === Alternative forms === grammaticalise === Etymology === Back-formation from grammaticalization. === Verb === grammaticalize (third-person singular simple present grammaticalizes, present participle grammaticalizing, simple past and past participle grammaticalized) (transitive) To make grammatical. (linguistics, transitive) 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. (linguistics, transitive) To cause (a word, a suffix, etc) to undergo grammaticalization. ==== Synonyms ==== grammaticize, grammatize ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ====