**** Monogenetic relexification -- Whinnom's hypothesis

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Whinnom's relexification hypothesis was that the widespread common features of creole languages were the result of its single source--the Mediterranean trading language or _Lingua Franca_. This language, or more to the point, _Sabir_, the trading language used in the Crusades, was continually outfitted with new, mixed lexicons in order to meet the exigincies of trade with non-European-speaking populations. According to this model, it was subsequently relexified by the Portuguese, and then later by Africans, English, French and others. {Ian Hancock, "West Africa and the Atlantic Creoles," essay in The English Language in West Africa, John Spenser, ed., London: Longman Group, 1971, 113-117; Wardaugh, 74.}