Language Change

Language change is variation over time in a language's phonetic, morphological, semantic, syntactic, and other features.

Read more about Language Change:  Causes of Language Change, Types of Language Change, Sociolinguistics and Language Change, Quantifying Language Change, Language Shift and Social Status

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    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

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