relexifier

English

Etymology

relexify +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹiˈlɛk.səˌfaɪ.ɚ/

Noun

relexifier (plural relexifiers)

1. (linguistics) One who relexifies.
   • c. 1994, Lefebvre, Claire, The tense, mood and aspect system of Haitian Creole and the problem of transmission of grammar in creole genesis, Université du Québec à Montréal, p. 69

     The relexifiers thus relabelled the lexical entry copied from kò as te, a reduced form of été. This derivation accounts straightforwardly for the fact that the properties of te in the Haitian lexicon parallel those of kò in the Fongbe lexicon.

Related terms

• relexification
• relexify