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“I would like to call this kind of research “clining,” drawing upon an essay on something I called “upclining” I wrote quite a few years ago in an effort to engage with processes of “grammaticization” in language, i.e., the tendency of expressions to transition from semantic to grammatical functions.”

— Adam Katz, Idiomclining · Jan 01, 2026 · Bouvard Substack