Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The loss of creole features in an original creole language as the result of contact with a language that was one of its ancestors.
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- noun The process of
decreolizing .
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Examples
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Yet, among Dillard's citations are two articles of my own ( "Continuity and Change in American Negro Dialects" and "Historical and Structural Bases for the Recognition of Negro Dialect") in which I demonstrate that these present-day differences between Gullah and other forms of Black English must be of rather recent origin — a result of the relatively greater decreolization which the original plantation creole underwent outside Gullah territory.
Gullah Stewart, William A. 1973
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And the reason why decreolization was so slow in coming to Gullah speech was clearly their greater isolation — a factor which Spears would have his readers believe we creolists have never recognized.
Gullah Stewart, William A. 1973
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Over the succeeding centuries, this language has undergone a process of decreolization for obvious reasons.
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