degrammaticalizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

degrammaticalize (三人称単数 現在形 degrammaticalizes, 現在分詞 degrammaticalizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 degrammaticalized)

1. (transitive) To make less grammatical or not grammatical.
2. (linguistics, transitive) To cause (an inflectional ending, etc) to undergo degrammaticalization.
   • 2002, Ilse Wischer, Gabriele Diewald, New Reflections on Grammaticalization, John Benjamins Publishing (→ISBN), page 45:

     Using diachronic evidence from Swedish, I will show that inflectional endings may be maintained as “less cumulative” inflections, or even degrammaticalize into a derivational suffix or a clitic.

   • 2004, Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association

     […] try to provide empirical evidence for the thesis that inflectional affixes can degrammaticalize into a derivational suffix or a clitic.