DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
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Lemmaeffable pidgin
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaBickerton (1977)
TitoloPidginization and Creolization: Language Acquisition and Language Universals
Sinonimi 
Rinviieffable (inglese)
pidgin (inglese) 
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In the case of any given pidgin that persists over time, the number of speakers for whom it is ‘effable’ will tend to increase, just as a levelling process will tend to remove distinctive markers of individual first-language influence, thus causing the pidgin to approximate more closely (but never completely) the idealized ‘regular’ pidgin of linguistic myth.
- Bickerton (1977), Pag. 56