Mesolect vs Basilect - What's the difference?
mesolect | basilect |
(linguistics) A variety of speech that is midway between the acrolect and the basilect.
* 1973 Sep, , The Nature of a Creole Continuum'', in ''Language 49(3), page 642, [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0097-8507%28197309%2949%3A3%3C640%3ATNOACC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K]
(linguistics) A variety of a language that has diverged greatly from the standard form.
Basilect is a related term of mesolect.
In linguistics terms the difference between mesolect and basilect
is that mesolect is a variety of speech that is midway between the acrolect and the basilect while basilect is a variety of a language that has diverged greatly from the standard form.mesolect
English
Noun
(en noun)- [...] one characteristic of the mesolect seems to be that it contains, not merely forms from the polar lects, but forms which in function, if not always in phonetic shape, are peculiar to itself.