[PDF] approach language change

Language change is variation over time in a language's features. It is studied in several subfields of linguistics: historical linguistics, sociolinguistics  Causes · Types · Sociolinguistics · Language shift and social statusAutres questions
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  • What are the methods of language change?

    The Linguistic Approach:
    Using distinctive methods to study human language, cognition, mind, and their relationships is known as the study of linguistics.
    The linguistic analysis is all about using linguistic knowledge to analyze different language materials.

  • What is the approach of linguistics?

    Language is always changing.
    We've seen that language changes across space and across social group.
    Language also varies across time. Generation by generation, pronunciations evolve, new words are borrowed or invented, the meaning of old words drifts, and morphology develops or decays.

  • What is the language change?

    There are two types of language planning: instrumental and sociolinguistic (Fasold, op. cit., 250-1; Appel and Muysken 1987: 49).
    The instrumental approach to LP regards language as a tool which can be perfected to fulfil certain functions, carry out certain tasks.

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