{"id":8080,"date":"2019-05-22T16:03:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/grammaticization_-or_grammaticalization\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:03:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:03:49","slug":"grammaticization_-or_grammaticalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/grammaticization_-or_grammaticalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammaticization (or grammaticalization)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A central phenomenon of language change in which a contentful word such as a noun or a verb develops over time. &nbsp;It does so through a process of becoming more fixed in position, phonologically reduced, and semantically bleached into a grammatical element like an inflection, preposition or conjunction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"copula\">Copula<\/a>, <a href=\"closed-class_words\">Closed-class words<\/a>, <a href=\"co-occurrence_learning\">Co-occurrence learning<\/a>, <a href=\"language_development\">Language development<\/a>, <a href=\"open-class_words\">Open-class words<\/a>, <a href=\"parameter_-linguistics-\">Parameter (linguistics)<\/a>, <a href=\"semantics\">Semantics<\/a>, <a href=\"syntax\">Syntax<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A central phenomenon of language change in which a contentful word such as a noun or a verb develops over time. &nbsp;It does so through a process of becoming more fixed in position, phonologically reduced, and semantically bleached into a grammatical element like an inflection, preposition or conjunction.&nbsp; See Copula, Closed-class words, Co-occurrence learning, Language &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/grammaticization_-or_grammaticalization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grammaticization (or grammaticalization)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}