relexifier
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relexifier (plural relexifiers)
- (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 kò 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 kò in the Fongbe lexicon.
- 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