metatypy

English

Etymology

Coined by Australian and British linguist Malcolm Ross in 1996.

Noun

metatypy (uncountable)

  1. (linguistics) The morphosyntactic change that a language undergoes due to its speakers being bilingual.
    • 1996, Malcolm Ross, “Contact-induced change and the comparative method”, in The comparative method reviewed: regularity and irregularity in language change, page 209:
      The Trans New Guinea language area is probably the result of repeated metatypy rather than of common genetic origin.

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