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relexification Linguistics.|ˌriːlɛksɪfɪˈkeɪʃən|
[f. re- 5 a + Gr. λέξι-ς word + -fication.]
The process of replacing a word or group of words in one language with a corresponding word or group of words from another language, without grammatical adjustment of the items introduced.
1962W. A. Stewart in F. A. Rice Stud. Role Second Languages in Asia, Africa, & Lat. Amer. 46 The vocabulary derived from one source language has been largely replaced..by a more recent vocabulary derived from another language, while the original grammatical structure is preserved... This process of relexification seems to be the converse of restructuralization. 1965Amer. Speech XL. 172 William Stewart has hypothesized that this Portuguese⁓based pidgin was re-lexified to yield the English, Dutch, and French pidgins which are the progenitors of the Creoles. This idea of a re-lexification which left the original syntax almost intact is a very attractive one. 1968Word XXIV. 263 The effect of this process is a kind of continuous and massive ‘relexification’. 1971[see initiator]. 1972J. L. Dillard Black English iii. 121 Within the Negro community, the use of Africanisms has been demonstrably larger in the past; allowing for relexification, we can still see a great deal of indirect influence. Ibid. 303 Relexification is the replacement of a vocabulary item in a language with a word from another, without a change in the grammar. If I change the sentence I am very tired to I am très tired I have in a sense relexified the English sentence. A ‘Latin’ sentence like ego amo tu is of course simply a relexification of I love you with Latin words. 1974R. A. Hall External Hist. Romance Lang. 33 According to certain..theories, these two varieties..would have been the predecessors of West African Pidgin Portuguese, from which all other modern pidgins and creoles would have sprung by a process of ‘relexification’. 1975Language LI. 685 If all of a group of PC's [sc. pidgin or creole languages], such as those usually embraced in relexification hypotheses.., have a common ancestor, then the extension of the use of ‘mouth’ in that ancestor would account for ‘mouth’ having the added sense in all those PC's. |