History of the english language


Mechanism of language change



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Mechanism of language change
Any language change begins with the synchronic variation. Alongside with the existing language units – words, forms, affixes, pronunciation patterns, spelling norm, syntactic constructions – there spring up new units. They may be similar in meaning but slightly different in form, stylistic connotation, social values, distribution inn language space, etc.
Variation may have the following stages:
Table 1

Stages

Form A

Form B

1.

An Element of the Norm.

It does not exist.

2.

An Element of the Norm.

An Element of the Substandard Speech.

3.

An Element of the Norm.

An Element of the Norm.

4.

An Element of the Substandard Speech.

An Element of the Norm.

5.

The form dies out.

An Element of the Norm.


Causes of Language evolution
The scholars give different explanations of the causes of language evolution.
1. J.G. Herder and W. Grimm show the Romantic tendencies as the principal causes of the language development.
2. A. Schleicher proposed a naturalistic explanation of the language development saying that “As the language is a living organism, at has got its birth, maturity, old age and decay”.

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