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=== Lexicalization ===
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Certain classifier constructions may also, over time, lose their general meaning and become fully-fledged signs. This process is referred to as [[lexicalization]].{{Sfn|Brentari|2010|p=260}}{{Sfn|Sandler|Lillo-Martin|2006|p=87}} These types of signs are referred to as frozen signs.{{Sfn|Zwitserlood|2012|p=169-170}} For example, the ASL sign FALL seems to have come from a classifier construction. This classifier construction consists of a V-shaped hand, which represents the legs, moving down. As it became more like a sign, it could also be used with non-animate referents, like apples or boxes. As a sign, the former classifier construction now conforms to the usual constraints of a word, such as consisting of one syllable.{{Sfn|Aronoff|Meir|p=69-70|Padden|Sandler|2003}} The resulting sign must not be a simple sum of its combined parts, but can have a different meaning entirely.{{Sfn|Zwitserlood|2012|p=179}} They may serve as the [[Root (linguistics)|root morpheme]] that serves as the base for aspectual and derivational affixes. Classifiers cannot take these types of affixes.{{Sfn|Zwitserlood|2012|p=170}}
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