Q: `crystallization'

[Larry Trask]

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The term `crystallization' has been applied to various (attested or
posited) occasions on which a single more or less unified language
arises out of a welter of diverse linguistic activity.  Among the
linguists who have argued for this kind of scenario are Bob Le Page,
John (?) Chew, Charles-James Bailey, and Sally Thomason and Terrence
Kaufman in their well-known 1988 book.  According to T&K (p. 150),
the term `crystallization' was coined by Uriel Weinreich, but they
give no explicit reference.  Can anybody provide one?  I suspect it
may be Weinreich's 1958 paper in _Word_, but I don't have ready
access to that journal here.
 
Larry Trask
COGS
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
England
 
larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk