OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 52183

grammaticalize

Meanings (ES + gloss)
gramaticalizar
To make grammatical.
Enhanced output arises when learners grammaticalize their output either through the use of more advanced interlanguage forms or of target language forms.
It is only later that learners begin to grammaticalize their speech. According to N. Ellis (1996), they do this by extracting rules from the items they have learned—bootstrapping t…