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ad·stra·tum

(ăd′strā′təm, -străt′əm)

n. pl. ad·stra·ta (-strā′tə, -străt′ə)

An adstrate.

[ad- + stratum (on the model of substratum).]

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The team posits that Africanisms were the result of adstratal, rather than substratal influence because the initial formation of creoles took place rapidly and was followed by a prolonged process of bilingualism.

Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund

With regard to i), the most common assumption is that Norse and English were roughly adstratal in medieval England, with little if any difference in prestige (Hock 1986: 410, Townend 2002: 204, Trudgill 2011: 53).

REGIONAL VARIATION IN JESPERSEN'S CYCLE IN EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH

Another avenue of approach would be to consider possible antecedents in Scottish Gaelic or at least adstratal effects from that source.