Chnages Through Time: Words And Their Origins

Question 1

Explain language change

1 The nature and why?
2 Processes
3 21st century morphology
4 Language change for language teachers

Answer 1

1
• unavoidable
Language ➡️📖 social reality 
Social system changes from era to era 
Language cultural and a social phenomena 
\:) language inevitably  changes 

•unpredictable
Hands of 400 million native speakers
600-700 million 2nd lan speakers

Language change mostly takes place morphologically

Grammatical change is rare.

2
There are processes that analyze how words have changed over time.
- generalization words broaden their meanings
Aroma, escape, box
-narrowing - word become specialized in meaning over time
Girl, wife, man
-amelioration - words that improve there meanings
Nice, pretty
-pejoration words that develop a negative effect
Fagot notorious

3
Global spread of English
Internet: hashtag, slash, suffix ‘exit’

4
Both a necessity and nuisance
Necessity: to teach a lan relavant and uptodate
Nuisance: relearning

• should not prevent it
• should not overwhelm students with it
• exposing students to diversity of English