koinëisation

See also: koineisation, koinéisation, and koinêisation

English

Alternative forms

• (with diaereses) koinëisation, koinëization
• (with acute accents) koinéisation, koinéization
• (without diacritics) koineisation, koineization
• (rare: with circumflexes) koinêisation, koinêization

Etymology

koine +‎ -isation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔɪneɪaɪˈzeɪʃən/

Noun

koinëisation (usually uncountable, plural koinëisations)

1. (linguistics) The process whereby a lect develops into a koine, or an instance of this.
   • 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), →ISBN, page 266, endnote 4:

     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).

   • 1998, Donald N. Tuten, Koineization in Medieval Spanish, University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 340:

     What one sees here is the cumulative effect of repeated koineizations.

   • 2002, Paul Kerswill, “Koinëization and accommodation”, in Jack K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Blackwell, editors, Handbook of Language Variation and Change, pages 669–702:
   • 2011, Richard J. Watts, Language Myths and the History of English, Oxford Scholarship Online, →ISBN, chapter 4: “The construction of a modern myth: Middle English as a creole”, chapter abstract:

     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.

Translations

process whereby a lect develops into a koine

• French: koïnèisation f

instance of a lect developing into a koine