recreolization
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From recreolize + -ation.
Noun
[edit]recreolization (uncountable)
- 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).