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koinëisation

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Etymology

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From koine +‎ -isation.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌkɔɪneɪaɪˈzeɪʃən/

Noun

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koinëisation (usually uncountable, plural koinëisations)

  1. (linguistics) The process whereby a lect develops into a koine, or an instance of this.
    • 1994?, Yves-Charles Morin, “The Origin and Development of the Pronunciation of French in Québec” in The Origins and Development of Emigrant Languages: Proceedings from the Second Rasmus Rask Colloquium, Odense University, November 1994, eds. Hans Frede Nielsen and Lene Schøsler, Odense University Press (1996), →ISBN, page 266, endnote 4:
      This is a reasonable interpretation of Hull (1968, 1974). This author later made it clear that the koinêization process may have continued during the early period of colonization (Hull 1994).
    • 1998, Donald N. Tuten, Koineization in Medieval Spanish, University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 340:
      What one sees here is the cumulative effect of repeated koineizations.
    • 2002, Paul Kerswill, “Koinëization and accommodation”, in Jack K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Blackwell, editors, Handbook of Language Variation and Change, pages 669–702:
    • 2011, Richard J. Watts, Language Myths and the History of English, Oxford Scholarship Online, →ISBN, chapter 4: “The construction of a modern myth: Middle English as a creole”, chapter abstract:
      The central argument is that the language contact situations in which early forms of English were involved represent koinëisation and new dialect (or variety) formation rather than creole formation.

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