Dictionary

koinëisation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌkɔɪneɪaɪˈzeɪʃən/

Etymology

From koine + -isation.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The process whereby a lect develops into a koine, or an instance of this.
   • 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). 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), page 266, endnote 4
   • What one sees here is the cumulative effect of repeated koineizations. 1998, Donald N. Tuten, Koineization in Medieval Spanish, University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 340
   • 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. 2011, Richard J. Watts, Language Myths and the History of English, Oxford Scholarship Online, chapter 4: “The construction of a modern myth: Middle English as a creole”, chapter abstract

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Translations (1)

fr koïnéisation (process whereby a lect develops into a koine)