Accordingly, some linguists posit that a creole may remain as such or decreolize (i.e., lose its creole features) as it assimilates to its lexifier (the language from which it inherited most of its vocabulary) if both are spoken in the same polity.
Like his two previous works, "Nowhere Man" and "The Question of Bruno," they deal mostly with themes of cultural identity, conflict and displacement, often featuring characters of Eastern European origin who have been set adrift and are struggling, in ways both poignant and bitterly humorous, to assimilate America as it assimilates them.
Most magma formed by partial melting of the mantle is basaltic in composition, but, as it ascends, it assimilates silica, sodium, and potassium from the surrounding host rocks.
"Summer in Baden-Baden" participates in the power of Russian literature even as it revises it, assimilates it and even assimilates Dostoyevsky himself into Tsypkin's world, where intelligence and introspection and rationality are not antithetical to invention but are vital literary elements, instruments of the imagination.
Pico not only got lost in the mix, it also lost some of its character and identity as it was assimilated into the Killington culture.
Even if they're still technically available, all other social distractions are banished from this kingdom, with the exception of SMS — but even that is dressed up to look like a Facebook service as it is assimilated into the Chat Heads messaging game.
You do not listen to a work by Morton Feldman so much as you enter into it, assimilate its distinctive sound world and gradually come to inhabit it on your own terms.
In this case it is a monologue from Ms. Sheil — an actress of sound training and superb instinct — that is as hard to forget as it is to assimilate to the rest of the movie.
Part of the exhibition's mission is to shed light on Vuillard's social circles, which, as it happened, included numerous assimilated, cosmopolitan Jews throughout his lifetime.
The problem with the Frye Morris model is that it either overestimates or underestimates the connection stiffness as it was developed by assimilating only few test results.
The comparison study shows the stiffer prediction of the M θ r behaviour by Frye Morris (1975) model, as it was developed by assimilating only few test results and also does not consider the air-gap distance between the beam and column, which provides considerable flexibility to the connection.
