Koinëisation

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ËŒkɔɪneɪaɪˈzeɪʃən/

Alternative forms

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

Origin

koine + -isation

Full definition of koinëisation

Noun

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, University Press of Southern Denmark (1996), ISBN 9788778382269, 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 the Handbook of Language Variation and Change, eds. Jack Chambers (linguist), Peter Trudgill, and Natalie Schilling-Estes, , pages 669–702
• 2011, Richard J. Watts, Language Myths and the History of English, Oxford Scholarship Online, ISBN 9780195327601, 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.