Language change
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Language change or the evolution of language is the phenomenon whereby phonetic, morphological, semantic, syntactic, and other features of language vary over time. The effect on language over time known as diachronic change. Two linguistic disciplines in particular concern themselves with studying language change: historical linguistics and sociolinguistics. Historical linguists examine how people in the past used language and seek to determine how subsequent languages derive from previous ones and relate to one another. Sociolinguists study the origins of language changes and want to explain how society and changes in society influence language.
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See also
- Evolutionary linguistics
- Historical linguistics
- Invisible hand explanation
- Neologism
- Origin of language
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Sociolinguistics
- William Caxton
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