pidginogenic
English
Etymology
From pidgin + -o- + -genic.
Adjective
pidginogenic (comparative more pidginogenic, superlative most pidginogenic)
- (linguistics, rare) Relating to, or fostering, the formation of a pidgin.
- 1979, Kenneth C. Hill, The genesis of language, page 61:
- As shown by Gillian Sankoff, when the SLA context is also a genuine pidginogenic social context (i.e. tertiary hybridization) and when pidgin exists for a long time before creolization takes place, then the innovations will be consistent and regular in the pidgin and will be phonologically refined in the creole.
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