English

Alternative forms

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

Noun

koinëisation ‎(usually uncountable, plural koinëisations)

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, Odense University Press (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 K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill, and Natalie Schilling-Estes, Blackwell, 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.

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