grammaticalization

Etymology
From, coined in 1912 by the French linguist , corresponding to.

Noun

 * 1)  The process of making grammatical.
 * 2)  The process of language change by which a word or morpheme is reduced to more of a grammeme than a lexeme, for example the reduction of a content word representing an object or action (a noun or verb) to a clitic.

Translations

 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: grammatikalizáció
 * Russian: