acrolect
/ˈakrə(ʊ)lɛkt
/noun Linguistics
The most prestigious dialect or variety of a particular language. Contrasted with basilect.In Belize the basilect is what we call ‘broad Kriol’, the acrolect could be called Belizean English....
- The acrolect is often European, reflecting the history of colonization, but this is not always the case.
- Basilects and acrolects require some form, but mesolects require none.
Derivatives
acrolectal
- They are arranged along a post-creole continuum which has acrolectal (those varieties closest to the superstrate) at one end and basilectal (those varieties furthest from it) at the other.
- This study focuses on the loan terms which occur in both this basic form and its acrolectal counterpart.
- Even within noun morphology, acrolectal features are in most cases counterbalanced by a wider occurrence of basi-and mesolectal features, especially as for the personal pronoun system.
Origin
1960s: from Greek akron 'summit' + -lect as in dialect.
- Formula One
- formularise
- formularize
- formulary
- formulate
- formulation
- formulator
- formwork
- formyl
- for my money
- for my (or his, her, etc.) part
- Fornax
- fornenst
- fornent
- fornicate
- fornication
- fornicator
- fornix
- fornix cerebri
- for nothing
- for now
- for old times' sake
- for once (or this once)
- for one
- for one's liking