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1. GrammaticalizationIn linguistics, grammaticalization (also known as grammatization, grammaticization) is a process by which words representing objects and actions transform through sound change and language migration to become grammatical objects. Grammaticalization is a powerful aspect of language, as it creates new function words within language, by separating functions from their original inflectional and bound constructions.
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