Na literatura linguística, a gramaticalização, em sentido restrito, tem sido vista como um processo através do qual itens lexicais, em determinados contextos linguísticos, passam a assumir funções gramaticais e, uma vez gramaticalizados, continuam a desenvolver novas funções gramaticais (
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