When a frequently used discourse marker loses its original semantic content within a language, which consequence most accurately characterizes this diachronic process?

💡 Explanation

Semantic bleaching occurs because frequent use erodes the original meaning of a word or phrase, leading to its grammaticalization as a function word. Therefore, the discourse marker loses semantic content, rather than typological markedness increasing, morphological agglutination accelerating, or lexical borrowing increasing directly due to semantic erosion.

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