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- Created by: Tom
- Created on: 19-04-14 15:36
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- Features of Language Change
- Grammatical Change
- Inflections(how words end/ what form a word is)
- Verb inflections - Indicate tense eg. walked. Person eg. he walks. And whether it's singular/plural
- Noun inflections - Indicate if its singular/plural eg. actor/actors. +Gender eg actress/actor
- Adjective Inflections are used for comparatives and superlatives eg. fastes
- Word Order
- Old English word order wasn't as important/ Modern English there is less flexibility
- Negative constructions
- Multiple negatives are deemed incorrect/ Past they were used for adding emphasis e.g Canterbury Tales C14
- "Who/Whom" Nowadays regarded as too formal
- Inflections(how words end/ what form a word is)
- Semantic Change
- Broadening - Word retains old meaning+Gains a new one
- Narrowing - Words meaning becomes more specific
- Amelioration - Meaning of a word becomes more positive
- Pejoration - Meaning becomes more negative
- Euphamism - MEthod of describing something unpleasant more mildly
- Metaphor - Word acquires new meaning when used as a metaphor
- Weakening - Word loses original meaning/power
- Idioms - Phrase has differing meaning to the literal meanings of words
- Political Correctness - Replacing offensive words and phrases
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- Grammatical Change
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