👉 In linguistics, a harmonization is an increase in the grammatical structure of a language. It involves changing words or phrases to create new words that are related but not identical. Harmonizations can be positive or negative, and they often occur as a result of linguistic change or through cultural exchange. For example: - A "new" word such as "newspaper" is created by combining two existing words: "paper" and "news". - The English verb "to write" becomes