Insofar as both pidgins and creoles undergo modification toward the standard language, the processes of decreolization which have been shown to progress not always by a direct but at least sometimes by an indirect path toward the standard […] again represent the maximum limit on ‘hypercorrection’ in Labov’s sense of generalization and overgeneralization of certain prestigious forms in the language.
- Traugott (1977), a pag.90-91