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Language change - Coggle Diagram
Language change
lexical change
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Scientific progress - Advances in medicine, science and technology cause new words and phrases to be coined. e.g. chemotherapy
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Acronym - The first letters are taken from words to create a new term – you pronounce it as a single word. e.g. NATO
initialism - The first letters are taken from words to create a new term – each letter is pronounced separately.
Back Formation - A verb is created from an existing noun by removing a suffix. e.g. sculpt from sculptor
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Grammatical change
Double negations - used to be seen commonly in english and now is considered as unstandard
"I don't want nothing"
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Sytnax has simplified- sentences used to contain a lot more subordinate clauses. Modern English tends to be
word order changes - increased use of auxiliary verbs (do have be) impacted the word order in which words are said - the word order for interrogatives used to start with a verb, "spake you with him" EME --> "Did you speak with him"ME
changes in word functions - the more modern tech words becoming verbs - "send a text" to " I am texting"
Robert Lowth 1762 - ' a short introduction to grammar' highlighted prescriptivist attitudes around the English language and grounded his rules in Latin - no longer using 'thou'
orthographical change
the great vowel shit 1400-1600:
- pronunciation of long vowels were changed
- replacing them with similar ones we hear today
- the vowels changing from middle english to modern english are:
- toe --> to
- weef --> wife
- moos - mouse
- bayn --> been
-heer --> her
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