- A
lexifier is the
language that
provides the
basis for the
majority of a
pidgin or
creole language's
vocabulary (lexicon).
Often this
language is also...
- French-based
creole language, is a
creole for
which French is the
lexifier. Most
often this
lexifier is not
modern French but
rather a 17th- or 18th-century koiné...
-
postulated phenomenon whereby over time a
creole language reconverges with the
lexifier from
which it
originally derived. The
notion has
attracted criticism from...
-
language exists alongside its
lexifier language, as in Belize, a
creole continuum forms between the
Creole and the
lexifier language. This is
known as code-switching...
- A
Dutch creole is a
creole language whose main
lexifier is the
Dutch language, a West
Germanic language of the Low Countries.
These creoles usually developed...
-
limited to core vocabulary,
words with only a
specific meaning in the
lexifier language may
acquire a
completely new (or additional)
meaning in the pidgin...
- crioulo) are
creole languages which have
Portuguese as
their substantial lexifier. The most widely-spoken
creoles influenced by
Portuguese are Cape Verdean...
-
similarities amongst pidgins and
creoles despite having very
different lexifier languages.
Grammatical simplification can be
explained by
other processes...
- and
Miskito Coastal Creole. Its
vocabulary originates in English, its
lexifier, but San Andrés–Providencia
creole has its own
phonetics and many expressions...
-
February 1999.
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April 2014. "The
classification of the English-
Lexifier Creole Languages Spoken in Grenada, Guyana, St Vincent, and
Tobago Using...
