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Relexification is a form of Language Interference in which a pidgin language takes the great majority of its lexicon from the coloniser's language, for instance English or Portuguese , while its grammar, according to Universalist theories, changes due to universal principles of simplification and grammaticalisation or, according to substratist theories, is taken from the Substratum indigenous language. In the context of Constructed Language s, the term is applied to the process of creating a language by substituting new vocabulary into the grammar of an existing language, often one's native language. While this practice is most often associated with novice constructed language designers, it may also be done as an initial stage towards creating a more sophisticated language. A language thus created is known as a ''relex''. EXAMPLES
::''Ego credo ut vita pauperum est simpliciter atrox, simpliciter sanguinarius atrox, in Liverpoolio.'' :: I think that the life of the poor is simply atrocious, simply bloody atrocious, in Liverpool. REFERENCES Joyce, James. ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man''. New York, The Modern Library, 1928. SEE ALSO
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