单词 | decreolize |
释义 | decreolizev. transitive. To modify from a creolized towards a standard language; to cause (a language) to lose its creolization. Chiefly as past participle and participial adjective. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [verb (transitive)] > create creole or pidgin > cause to lose creole features decreolize1933 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. 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. 1968 Word 24 260 The Negro speech has influenced the dialect of the entire region but has itself often become quite thoroughly ‘decreolized’. 1981 in Eng. World-wide (1982) III. 245 A pidgin English which eventually became a plantation Creole language and ultimately a decreolized language. Derivatives deˌcreoliˈzation n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > creole or mixed language > losing creole features decreolization1971 decreolizing1974 1971 I. 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. 1977 Language 53 334 The strongest motive for variation in decreolization is the pressure to avoid the basilect. 1983 Word 34 207 According to Valdman.., decreolization plays a considerable role in Haiti, not only among the bilinguals. deˈcreolizing n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > creole or mixed language > losing creole features decreolization1971 decreolizing1974 1974 Florida FL Reporter 12 78/3 Grammatical differences (accountable for by perhaps some late-ordered, over-generalised rules or by perhaps decreolizing rules). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < v.1933 |
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