xenolecticity
English edit
Etymology edit
xenolectic + -ity
Noun edit
xenolecticity (uncountable)
- (linguistics) The property of being a xenolect.
- 1989, Ofelia García, Ricardo Otheguy, English across cultures, cultures across English, →ISBN, page 277:
- At some point in the decreolization process, however, xenolectal structures become masked by surface-structure mimicry of the matrilect, so that the apparent degree of xenolecticity of the evolving mimolect drops below the real level, as represented by the crossover of A-B and C-D.