recreolization

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

recreolize +‎ -ation

Noun[edit]

recreolization (uncountable)

  1. The process of recreolizing.
    • 2000, David McNeill, Language and Gesture, →ISBN, page 366:
      The recreolization studies focus upon individual cases of recreolization within a broader population of deaf signers.
    • 2002, Richard P. Meier, Kearsy Cormier, Modality and Structure in Signed and Spoken Languages, →ISBN, page 397:
      There is another possible factor behind the uniformity of verb agreement in all signed languages: recreolization (Fischer 1978; Gee and Kegl 1982; Gee and Goodhart 1988).