| 释义 |
deˈcreolize, v.
[f. de- II. 1 + creolize v. 2 b.]
trans. To modify from a creolized towards a standard language; to cause (a language) to lose its creolization. Chiefly as pa. pple. and ppl. a. Also deˈcreolizing vbl. n.; deˌcreoliˈzation.
1933Bloomfield Language xxvi. 474 It is a question whether during this process the dialect that is being de-creolized may not influence the speech of the community. 1968Word XXIV. 260 The Negro speech has influenced the dialect of the entire region but has itself often become quite thoroughly ‘decreolized’. 1971I. F. Hancock in J. Spencer Eng. Lang. W. Afr. 116 Krio,..as with Gullah, Jamaican Creole, Guyana Creole and Cameroon Pidgin, is spoken side by side with English, which constantly exerts a ‘standardizing’ pressure on the language, resulting in its gradual decreolisation, especially with regard to pronunciation. 1974Florida FL Reporter XII. 78/3 Grammatical differences (accountable for by perhaps some late-ordered, over-generalised rules or by perhaps decreolizing rules). 1977Language LIII. 334 The strongest motive for variation in decreolization is the pressure to avoid the basilect. 1982English World-Wide ii. 245 A pidgin English which eventually became a plantation Creole language and ultimately a decreolized language. 1983Word XXXIV. 207 According to Valdman.., decreolization plays a considerable role in Haiti, not only among the bilinguals. |