pidginogenic

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From pidgin +‎ -o- +‎ -genic.

Adjective[edit]

pidginogenic (comparative more pidginogenic, superlative most pidginogenic)

  1. (linguistics, rare) Relating to, or fostering, the formation of a pidgin.
    • 1979, Kenneth C. Hill, The genesis of language, page 61:
      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.