Grammaticalised
Grammaticalised is an adjective used in linguistics to describe a form or construction that has undergone grammaticalisation. Grammaticalisation is the process by which a lexical item or a syntactic construction acquires a primarily grammatical function, such as marking tense, aspect, mood, modality, definiteness, or evidentiality, often at the expense of its original lexical meaning. When a form is grammaticalised, it typically shifts from a content-bearing use to a function-bearing use within the grammar of the language.
The process of grammaticalisation involves several common steps. A word with concrete, lexical meaning experiences semantic
Typical outcomes of grammaticalisation include the creation of future tense markers (for example, auxiliary verbs that
In scholarly usage, the term helps distinguish between forms with primary lexical content and those that function