Assertion: creole | /r/HasProperty | defined
Facets:
value: roughly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Creole" can be roughly defined as "native to a region," but its precise meaning varies according to the geographic area in which it is used.
text: There are perhaps others like McWhorter (in press) who assume that denying that creoles can be defined structurally amounts to claiming that there is no empirical justification for singling them out as an interesting group of vernaculars.