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Superstratum

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Superstratum 

traces in one language of a former language, which was the language of culture, government, or interethnic communication or the language of a conquering people. The term also refers to the language exerting such influence. For example, Russian has a superstratum of Old Church Slavonic and, through it, of Middle Greek; English has a superstratum of French and Latin. The influence of a superstratum is apparent chiefly in the lexicon (in borrowings and calques) and in compound sentences and other constructions that are typical of written language.
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The superstratum consisted of the women granted the privilege of wearing Chanel couture (Anna Wintour, Selma Blair, Daphne Guinness).
Costume Drama by Jessica Bruder, Ben Smith, Sheelah Kolhatkar and Rebecca Dana / The New York Observer
Like in France, where the result of the contact of Gaulish Latin, as a spoken substratum, with superstratum Frankish only surfaced in writing in the ninth century after the Carolingian Reform, it needed a strong external impetus to adjust the written language to the spoken practice.
Diglossia in Anglo-Saxon England, or what was spoken Old English like? by Tristram, Hildegard L.C / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
The next chapter takes on the discussion of pidgins, creoles and hybrids, and their relation to superstratum languages.
The English languages. (Reviews) by Kopaczyk, Joanna / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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