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pidginogenic

pidginogenic adjective: relating to, or fostering, the formation of a pidgin.

Adjective

pidginogenic (comparative more pidginogenic, superlative most pidginogenic)

  1. (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...1979, Kenneth C. Hill, The genesis of language, page 61

Forms of pidginogenic

comparativemore pidginogenic
superlativemost pidginogenic

Origin of pidginogenic

From pidgin + -o- + -genic.

Questions about pidginogenic

What does pidginogenic mean?
Pidginogenic means relating to, or fostering, the formation of a pidgin.
What part of speech is pidginogenic?
Pidginogenic is an adjective.

Words near pidginogenic in the dictionary

  1. pidginizations
  2. pidginize
  3. pidginized
  4. pidginizes
  5. pidginizing
  6. pidginogenic
  7. pidgins
  8. Pidhaitsi
  9. Pidhorodne
  10. Pidhorodnie
  11. Pidie

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