lexifier

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Etymology

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From lexify +‎ -er.

Noun

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lexifier (plural lexifiers)

  1. (linguistics, lexicography) The language of a pidgin or creole that serves as the basis for most of its vocabulary.
    • 2018, John H. McWhorter, The Creole Debate, Cambridge University Press, page 9:
      A great deal of linguistic evidence reveals that creole creators transformed the lexifier in a fashion unexplainable as just hybridization, but well known from studies of pidginization and second-language acquisition.

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