A remote island community experiences sustained contact between English-speaking traders and speakers of a local Austronesian language; if a stable creole emerges, which consequence is most likely?

💡 Explanation

The stable creole grammaticalizes features from both the superstrate (English) and substrate (Austronesian) languages, because creolization involves reanalysis and simplification coupled with feature borrowing. Therefore, grammatical features from both contribute to the new grammar, rather than complete elimination or retention, under unique selection pressure.

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