lexifierとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From lexify +‎ -er.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈlɛk.sɪ.faɪ.ɚ/

名詞

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.

派生語

• English-lexifier

関連する語

• lexified