Also known as grammatization, grammaticalisation, grammatisation, grammaticization, grammaticisation
Grammaticalization (also known as grammatization or grammaticization) is a linguistic process in which words change from representing objects or actions to serving grammatical functions. Grammaticalization can involve content words, such as nouns and verbs, developing into new function words that express grammatical relationships among other words in a sentence. This may happen rather than speakers deriving such new function words from (for example) existing bound, inflectional constructions. For example, the Old English verb 'to want', 'to wish' has become the Modern English auxiliary verb wi
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).