pidginogenic
adjEtymology From pidgin + -o- + -genic.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Rare Relating to, or fostering, the formation of a pidgin.
- As shown by Gillian Sankoff, when the SLA context is also a genuine pidginogenic social context (i.e. tertiary hybridization) and when pidgin exists for a long time before creolization takes place, then the innovations will be consistent and regular in the pidgin and will be phonologically refined in the creole.1979, Kenneth C. Hill, The genesis of language, page 61: