adstraten.adj.
/ˈadˌstreɪt/, U.S. /ˈædˌstreɪt/ Linguistics.
A. n.
A language which has influenced the elements or features of another (typically neighbouring) language. Cf. adstratum n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > [noun] > linguistic change > specific features or processes involved in > language causing change in another
superstratum1939
superstrate1958
superstrate language1958
adstrate1963
1963 Glotta 41 154 We seem to have here a curious example of warring adstrates.
1997 Amer. Speech 72 100 Dutch might perhaps be considered an adstrate for Papiamentu, and it is common knowledge that endogenous creoles have adstrates.
2010 U. Ansaldo in R. Hickey Handbk. Lang. Contact xxiv. 511 The fact that triplication exists in the most significant adstrate of Singlish, however, explains why this feature would appear in Singlish and apparently no other English-based varieties.
B. adj.
= adstratal adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > [adjective] > terms relating to language change or development
primitive1687
inorganic1861
polygenetic1863
anomalistic1881
sandhi1888
language contact1911
processual1918
neo-linguistic1937
superstrate1958
adstrate1963
adstratal1968
1963 Lingua 12 339 Nor did the writer go into the interesting problem of intonation, which could have given rise to the languages of the interior which have been substrate or are still adstrate.
1978 Language 54 184 The areas that show the distinction may have taken it over as a hyper-urbanism from adstrate spoken Latin.
1987 Trans. Philol. Soc. 52 Such lengthening was subsequently..surrendered..in Sicily because of Greek adstrate influence, to which such a development was alien.
2003 Mod. Lang. Rev. 98 473 This chapter takes a sprint through the relevant varieties of Latin and the substrate, adstrate, and superstrate languages in question.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.adj.1963