metatypy

English

Etymology

Coined by Australian and British linguist Malcolm Ross in 1996.

Noun

metatypy (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) The morphosyntactic change that a language undergoes due to its speakers being bilingual.
   • 1996, Malcolm Ross, “Contact-induced change and the comparative method”, in The comparative method reviewed: regularity and irregularity in language change, page 209:

     The Trans New Guinea language area is probably the result of repeated metatypy rather than of common genetic origin.

See also

• metatypy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia