Across
- 1. the language that provides most of the vocabulary of a pidgin.
- 6. when two languages become more similar due to contact between them.
- 7. If the speakers in the contact situation are equally prestigious.
- 8. arise in situations where the speakers in contact are in need of a common, primary means of communication.
Down
- 2. words (often places, inventions, activities, etc.) that are named for persons somehow connected with them.
- 3. when a sound is added to the pronunciation of a word.
- 4. occurs when a word takes on somewhat grander or more positive connotations over time.
- 5. change in the order of sounds.
- 6. phrases acquired through a word-for-word translation into native morphemes.