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relexifier

English

Etymology

relexify +? -er

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?i?l?k.s??fa?.?/

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 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 in the Fongbe lexicon.

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relexify

English

Etymology

re- +? lexicon +? -ify

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?i?l?ks??fa?/
  • Rhymes: -?ks?fa?

Verb

relexify (third-person singular simple present relexifies, present participle relexifying, simple past and past participle relexified)

  1. (linguistics) Replace a language's lexicon with another's.

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  • lexicon
  • relexification
  • relexifier

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