##  [Relexification](/index.php/relexification) 

  ##  [Relexification](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/relexification-0) 

  

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**Humanities & Arts Dictionary**

 







 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Definition

A contact-induced process in which a speech community substitutes a large portion of its lexicon with items from another language while largely preserving preexisting grammatical frames and core morphosyntactic structure; the term typically denotes scenarios where lexical replacement outpaces structural change.