Assertion: creole's lexifier | /r/HasProperty | the language
Facets:
value: more often
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: More often the lexifier is the language that arrives at the contact site belonging to the substrate/adstrate languages.
text: A lexifier is the language that provides the basis for the majority of a pidgin or creole language's vocabulary (lexicon).
text: Accordingly, some linguists posit that a creole may remain as such or decreolize (i.e., lose its creole features) as it assimilates to its lexifier (the language from which it inherited most of its vocabulary) if both are spoken in the same polity.