Recreolize

Quick meaning: Recreolize is a verb meaning (linguistics) To modify a language by introducing additional elements of the matrilect.

Meaning

(linguistics) To modify a language by introducing additional elements of the matrilect.

Example Sentences

If one parent remains culturally dominant, however, the creole becomes a satellite ('satellect' or 'acolutholect') to that dominant language, which may be termed the 'matrilect'. In time, the creole normally begins recreolizing with the matrilect by borrowing from it. The different degrees in which the matrilect has been mixed into the creole constitute a 'gradatum' of overlapping systems in which the farthest from the matrilect at any moment is termed the 'basilect' by William Stewart.

Word Forms

• recreolizes
• recreolizing
• recreolized

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include creolise, relexify, reracialize, reculture, recombineer, retransitivize.

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