Student : Sharipova (Solijonova) Sevara Group : 28 Handout Factors Affecting Language Change

Student : Sharipova (Solijonova) Sevara

Group : 328

Handout 1

Factors Affecting Language Change

All languages change over time and change is inevitable for any living language. History records that languages change over time at every level of structure which includes vocabulary, phonology, morphology and syntax. For many people, it may not be easily apparent or obvious in a day-to-day communication on a personal level because many individuals are so intimately connected to their language that they may fail to see its changes. However, languages do indeed change and some languages flourish, some expand and some languages even die.

Types: There are types of English language change which include lexis, semantics, phonology, syntax and pragmatics and the study of these different types can be extremely complex. Therefore, there only a general and a few examples about the different types of change will be discussed

Exercises 1 Matching

Refers to how words are used in a practical sense.	Pragmatics
Refers to a change in the meaning or use of a word, or a generational shift in preference for one word or phrase over another.	Lexis
Refers to any change in the meaning(s) of a word over the course of time.	Semantics
Refers to change in the grammar of a language.	Syntax
Refers to change any sound that alters the distribution of phonemes in a language.	Phonology