univerbation
Sign in to saveIn linguistics, univerbation is the diachronic process of combining a fixed expression of several words into a new single word.
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In linguistics, univerbation is the diachronic process of combining a fixed expression of several words into a new single word.
The univerbating process is epitomized in Talmy Givón's aphorism that "today's morphology is yesterday's syntax".
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