Usually means: Evolution of words into grammar.
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  1. grammaticalization: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. grammaticalization: Wiktionary
  3. grammaticalization: Dictionary.com
  4. Grammaticalization: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. grammaticalization: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (grammaticalization)

noun:  (linguistics) The process of making grammatical.
noun:  (linguistics) 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.

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